The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1863, Page 2

b4 Se ———— = IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA. ONE DAY’S LATER NEWS. Alfoona and Protesina Correspondence, our a Franco-Rebel Alliance Agein Asserted. Recognition « Auxiety Regard- Mexico. apolcon’s ys QUILDING {8 FRANCE. A Crow from the Florida Despatched to Liverpool. English Lessons from the Union Big Guns and Turretted Lron-Clads, Captain Coles, R. N., On the Development of Our tron Navy. ee THE LAIRD REBEL RAM QUESTION, Legal Precedent for the Seiz- ure of the Vessels. THE POLISH QUESTION, THE SCHLESSWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. CHARLES MATHEWS ON THE FRENCH STAGE, ko., be. The steamship Etna, Captain McGuigan, which left Liverpool at four o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th and Queenstown on the 10th inst., arrived at this port about noon yesterdiy. Her uews is one day later than the advices of the Hecla, publisbod ta the Heratp yesterday morning. The Emperor Napoleon would proside ‘at a council of Ministers for the tost time on the 9th inst., as he would leave Paris for Slarritz noxt day, ‘The Paris Pourse on the 8th inst, was dull and lower. Rentes declined to 65 95, Five Italian brigand chiefs and two hundred and fifty of their followers had given in their submission to the government of Victor Emanuel, The Paris papers o! the 7th instant publish the following desp itch f:om Constantinople on the 6th ifst:— A Torkish sbip was seized by the Russians at Anapa, notwithstanding the protests of the Ottoman authorit and British Consul ‘The London Zimes of the 9th Instant in its city article says:— At tho winding up of tho South Sea Company, in Febru- ary, 1856. a sum of £44.000 was reserved to mect any lia- bilities that might subsequently arise. Seven years hav: ing now elapsed, it is proposed to distribute the final balance, which it is said will admit of a payment of apout £1 Sa. por cont to each proprietor. ~ ‘The Liverpool Post of the 9th instant says:— ‘Tho import of cheese from the American continent.does Not seem to partake of the goveral “ialling of about which we have heard so much, for tne Cunard steamer China, Captain Anderson, which arrived at this port on Satarday last from New York, had, besides other cargo, ‘no loag than 8.160 boxes of American cheese. Seldom if ever bag such a quantity been lauded from one vessel at this port. ‘Tho Neuste- Nachrichten of Vienna says:— ‘The Polish question is again assuming first rate import- ance. Pooplo are speakiog of an immediate war—rfor against Rugsia, but against Austria. Should theee threats ‘be realized they would, it must be confessed, be the worthy termination of all tho sititnese and all the perfidy which have hitherto ized the course of the ne- gotiations on the Polish question, Lot us wait. Wo con. not beli in any danger on the part of France, except in tho ovent of this Power wishing, io concert with Russia, to precipitate a solution of the Kastern question. “As to Ru 1° she desired to make an aimless war on her own ‘we should be ready to take up the glove. Our brave armies would surcly 6xperience real pleasure in Auritng back into their dens those Muscovite bears who can- not make head against the Polish insurzenis, except in the proportion of ten to one. ‘The Londonderry (Ireland) Journal of the 8th Instant says:— . We are sorry to find it stated that the Canadian gov @rnmont mediiaic the withdrawal of the postal subsidy NOW pald to the line of mail steamers which call in the river Foyle, near Londonderry. It should be borne ip miad that no ocean steamship company can hope to exiat without a subsidy. Experience bas proved this to be the ease, and our government practically : cknowledge the important truth tw the large sums aduualty granted for the conveyance of the oceap mails, Conflatng ourselves to the postal steamers running between this country and North Amertea, we see that the Cunard line ts heavily subsidized, and sub-id zed, too, for many a year to come, Tho Gaiway line is also subsidized, but less securely and much more moderately. Both these lines of steamers ‘sail (rom our shores to the ports of a forcign State, The ‘only mail steamers which ply directly between this coun- try aud our American colonies are the Canadian packets. ‘Those vesse's sail from a British port, toveh at an trish port, and finish their voyage at another British port on ‘the other sido of the Atiaatic; yet, while her Majesty's governmoat aasiat the Galway and Cunard lines, whose Shiys run to New York, they decline to contribute a single penny to the Canadian line, whose ships run to Quebec. ‘, From the West Coast of Africa we have news, dated at Sierra Leone ou the 1st of August, Along the coast the rainy season was sotting in, aod trade at the different stations was not knowa to have had any material alterna tions since advices by the last mail steamer. The United States war-sloop Kearsage was at Fayal on the 30th of August. A letter trom Jamestown, St. Helena, of the 30th July, mentions that for a month previously the island had ‘Deon devastated by storms and rain, but that during that period the epidemic which had previously prevailed disappeared, On the 6th of July a part of the immense vooks which overhang the town—no doubt undermined by ‘tho action of the water which had filtered through the gtoune—“ell, crushing a number of houses, almost all the obcupanta of which perished or received injuries. ‘The Paris correspondent of the London Globe says: Beaides the destruction by fire of the old Sernglio, three. fourths of Monastir, inland Turkey, six hundred houses on the Adriatic shoro of the Dardanelles, and the bazaar, onstom hoase, and corn granaries of Chios, have been burned. ‘The @olock on the morning of the Oth inst. ‘The Kangaroo arrived there the same day. ‘The steamship Virginia, from <<, arrived at Liver- pool on the 9tb. THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. Our Altona Correspondence. Avrows, Holstein, August 31,1963, Serious Agivation Beiween the Duckies and Denmark— By. fect of the Frankforl Gerfnante Comgress— Prodabititics Wa Danish War with the DuchicteChances of @ Euro- pean War Coming from the Conflict, de. Among tbe questions of importance now Agitating the miod of Europe is another attempted settioment of tho Danish Febleswig Holstein difficulties, which, if brought > & war, Got only knows where it will ond. The foal wet orivis which is now at band hes been for some considerable time; bat the Sat Denmark and Prussia declined the invitation of this Foyal conclave—refused to become partion to their delibe- on tho plea that, Prosaje having the largest ma- Of German population, the prtor claim foli to her in orgapization or calling together of such conven. tho Ger. be do. However, the result is, #0 far as States aro concerned, nothing conid ‘epee without the consent of the absentocs, an | wea . P ‘ | chanvo of th jon nia y tim “ stg. | ofa ne “ Hing tocar t chic Viewed ao» an ty @.0 Ueated as shed by the iias's government) to demacd of Renmark an. im , surre 5 of th ies W @ proviueul form « srnweat, based upon former treatics, ' ' " u (hia action it te ranly, th the point sud Weday it is ramorod.o: Ne OW hat dhe fet kava ordered troops into Hots r, dount if, bul itimay prow te t ho case i +8. (he Danish troops mow in camp at and We “ etine tet tg and ocoupy ( dofen the Fider fod by thelr sindt, and then blockade od Lat formed ao all soldiers wil march ris, & that the en a, where the bait 1 © be the hottest barmy iseomposed of thirty thousand a foree of thirty th A large number af these ‘rave from the diaaTe ted duchies, { hostilities with other © bo relied anon, particulariy as it has been re. prese.ted to them by the German press that they would be tiehiing with thete best friends. In fact, the Dane; do not trust their German goldiers, even in. tines of peiea, bot send them to foreign stations or to garrison duty in Jatland 4 Denmark proper, placing Danish native troops fi hieswi and Holstein. nd The <difficutty complamed of by the duchies is one of ather thin opposition to the Danish ¢ 1 estates have a German popu- lation, Holsteiz entir@ly so, and perbaps two-thirds of Schhewig ikewige. In the latter duchy Dapish magistratcs, clorgy, echoolmasters and police rule throughout the whole of it, and they are compelled by city of Washington reached Liverpool about ten these officers to both speak id teach the Donish lan- guage to their children. This. no doubt, is the chief griev- ance complained of by the Schleawickera, and it seems strange that it cannot be removed without an appeal to | pass on without making any stay, for want of any accom- | and thoir guaranteed and the German States | modations whatever. arms So it is, however, have to champion them through their diMculty, But there is another most of complaint—that is. taxation without representation. Thorefore hp 8 are devcergr’ to & provincial form of government, represented by their own delegates, ing their own poaeiicoey . Cetae, and police, and above all, to determine for themselves what language they should the Danish crown would not be impaired by such a change, inasmuch as Princo Christian, the present Duke of Schteawig-Holstein, ia heir The plan of procedure, ponce has hardly developed itself yet,” 1 sball keep on the lookout, and will give you the earliest. news when bostili- ties commence. War is. always a painful alternative— (this vou know to our sorrow—although a war in Kurope wil! keep them from meddling to your affairs, and give you'a better opportunity of whipping your rebellious chil- dren into proper obedience. Gormw States j t- | magnificent erparent to the Danish throne, | consisti wever, whether war or | from within four to ten feet of mo vy D vite what bo dh is arits, andl dg NO Hie WHOFE & bbe iA (A trapel among! the 1 aod a) his ton, is npse y ) rity of Germien fur the s le por Op the 40 feorares ¢ ald bast anitnel ome the indiy Me Overy uncuttiul Liev Atopped since leavin a chin cohhmn eR the variation «a it gees,! Tor, hiterestod in riny iidiyidoais : Mable upon which ther ean toy dat which they tavariabiy cash execrations upon the 'l: *xtel, € wot in Switzorian f follows! heir stomachs evi ‘yal place in the universe in their own imoginatioi And, after alt, { is really astonishing how well the ta | bles of the mount of the Upper’ Fngadin are sup pled, notwithstacdine the complaints of our worthy friends ‘Their provisions are brongnt, for the most part, over the Bernina Pass, from Italy ; so they are never without the nicest frnit. nnd, in fact, tho best of poultry. ‘Their own laker supply them with tho most excellent of trout in abnodanee. and, as ig well known, every indi vidual in that vicinity isan accomplished pastry baker. Even Colan} spent three yoars of his life io tho “world ’—that is to say, at Berlin, as 00k 5 but he soon tired of the employment, and longed for the old bills again, which he is not likely ever again to leave, The inhabitants of the Upper Engadin have not yet, like those of the Lower, become corrupted by contact with the world. They are stil! noted for their scrapulous honesty. Their region has not long been visited by tra- velJers to any extent, Yet for the last three years they have heen flooded to gz with visitors, so much ‘go that great sumnbers of travellers have been obliged to Houses are being erected may at loast hope for aw shelter the coming season. The io this immediste vicinity is the most any in Switzerland. From a standpoint on one of the hills in the vicinity of the Rosetech glacier, yes! cs jed_no 10 to pinnacle upon the cry: foe turrets of glacier atour feet. [gathered a charming of flowers, of thirteen varieties, this morning, all growing perpetual ice. Sxpreunen 1—Evening. Nothing has yet been heard of our German friend, who hour, howevor, at present for tho | aimed at in ageravating cause | mountain guests, and travellors terday. 1 count Jos than [in adoyt and what institutions would be best adapted to the | eleven ginciors in our immediate neighborhood. We ~woll being of their own community. Their allegiance to | saw a chamois darting shes beneath us (rom pionaol whio maaiet tics ON of Cunmidor mae 4p aates irom t OP APL of Lords ania ran at ‘the Fin nM a © opin iat tine * and deciared that ‘oon. This id gold to the so eden Tro. (hos started? On sure. of the House of lowing entry: — (47 Cor teking into eongsideration the ’ for the judges It: whether the JAtis af ship a? wes n his Majesty's da in roiation there) and temporal 4 rought in to enable tial the? sent assemble , ts heirs and pe Of gre foreigners, within any of his Majesty's do- * aelliny ach thin 10 forsignees without Heenae vets, his heira or Successors, Ordered that the Prepare and bring ipa bill purav fa. Jnilces do Tesolution, The sirhject is duly mentionod in the Parliamentary History passim. Mr, Harris Prendergast, who communi. cates this important precedent to the Times, says :— It thus appears that tho present controversy is not of modern origin , end the desire of the House of Lords to prevent the sale of ships ia remarkable, Thore who havo acoeas to the State pavers may perbaps be able to show what acts gave rise to the Swedish romonstranco, aud how the matter was settled, and what became of the bill which the judges were ordered to prepare.” French Privateors for the Rebels. A French journal, the Paare de la Loire, staton that two steam clippers in course of construction at Nantes, and two sister bullding at Bordeaux, wore suspected of for the rebels, to be detivered at sea twon ty loagues off Relle Isle. The vessels are eighty metres long, to have engines of four hundred horse power, will carry {wonty-two guns, ‘Speed. Nd, to be _ ar ‘the i otye cis would appear one of the xiain objects thelr construction, as they aro romarkab!y narrow, and their stems are said to be as sharp as the diado of s razor, A very suspictous circumstance iu con- nection with them is that they are to be delivered up at sea, twenty from Belle Iale. It is generally be- Neved, tho Phare de la Loire says, that these vessels are tended for the Confederates. IRON-CLADS, FORTS AND BIG GUNS. from the London Timos, Sept. 9. sale A the interest naturaily excited by a straggle was to have returned act evening. Colani is going to | so gallantly sustaincd, we find in the incidents. of tho ‘send a guide out to-morrow morning in search of him, “and bis guide from the Berner-Oberland,” he does not. fail to add, with corsiderable emphasis. For my part, I never expect to behold the good gentleman again this side THE GLACIERS OF SWITZERLAND. | ‘tt! bontee from whence no tourist revarns, Our Swiss Correspondence. Pontaeema, Switzerland, August 81, 1863, Ezcursions and Guides to the Glacier Regions—The Moun- tains and Thetr Legal Rules—Talk with a Chamois Hun- ter—Nationat @Pcculiaritics of Travellert-—A German Traveller Missing, é0. THE IRON REBEL RAMS. her The London ‘Nmes basa leader in answer toa letter | tion, from a correspondent, who covtends that the two ships in the Mersey, supposed to be for the rebels, should be siege of Charloaton many lessons of the utmost to military and naval science. While we ar- Lig ood Americans are practising, Our speculations and. éxpor!- ments proceed side by side with the actual work of war across the At , and it behooves us to lose no tunity of testing Our couclinions by the results of the ex- perience there acquired. Unfortunntely, this is not 8 easy a task as might be supposed. The Americans, from tho very beginning of the war, have ad rod to one particular system with little devia- and tpis system bappens to have no paral- Jet in our experiments. The comparison fails, Unerefore, for want of homogeneous quantities. The Americans have not tried our modols, and wo have made seized. The Tim-s remarks, in reply, that the neces- | no trial of theirs. Besides this impediment. it is almost Pontresina is the great starting point for att the'grand | ®#'Y.legal proofs are still wanting, but concludes by say- yaountain and glacior excursions from the Upper Engadin. Ta fact, thoonly reliable guides are to be procured here, from Colant’s Guide Bureau, every individual guide being a chimeis hunter, and thoroughly acquainted with the intricacies of every hill and gorge, mountain top and glacier, from Coire, in the Grisons, where their domain begins, to Tirano, on the Italian territory. Not untre- | ever order they wore original quently, however, some sturdy old German fellow brings is guide along with him. Such a one js at present a ing— impossibie to obtain from the acene of war details of such absolute accuracy as are roquired for calculations like these, Hofore we could balance the powers of attack and all, however, perhaps our correspondent is | de‘ence, as exemplified in avy particular operation, we After simply expressing a desire, which we have no donbt is very generally felt, that the government would cut a vexatious knot by detaining the two steamrams and trust- ing the cage toa trial. However, that is a matter for the government itaelf to consider. is a very common bolle! that these vessels to what. Iy laid down, or to what. ever nation they may be intermediately passed, are des- tined in the end for the service of the Confederates against the federals. Thero ts an unusaally general im- fellow ladger with your humbie correspondent at the | Pression that if we wero inthe position of the federais, Berner-Oberland, and, becoming greatly attached to his faithful guide, is determined to transport him around alt over Switzerland. As a matter of course, the fellow knows no more about the mountains and glaciers of the Upper Engadin than 1 do, nor as much either; for fT have traversed many of them before; and yet I should as.soon thivk of walking across Niagara on a rope like Blondin as ch vessels, wo should be unlikely to take the matter quictly; nor can we say but that we should oxpect to fot much counternoise to these opinions in any sympathy for that commercial »dventure which selects channels of sich equivocal propriety. In short, if the Ministers defend these vessels we do not think they would be justified in doing 80; but the question entiroly denends upon the evidence, which can only be Knowa hereafter. The Tendon Herald refuses to beliove the statement of |’ we get little direct information. I should of exploring these Alpine beighta without one of | the London Post that the government has decided to de- Colani’s experienced guides. In fact, I am only satisfied with Colani himself, the very best guide, by the way, in tain the steam rams launched by Mr. Laird in the Mer- sey,and in a charncteristic oditorial denounces such a monstrous piece of tyranny. and placid acquiescence in all Switzerland. The splendid old fellow really thinks | the outrageous demands of the federal government. that all the Alps bereabout belong to him by right of pos- session aa well as by virtue of inheritance. And yet he 1 ia decidedly inclined to dispute tho bistorical records | hav concerning his father, which avow him to have made | Subject of so much controversy to be dotainod. league with the Spirit of Darkness, in which he pledgea himself by solemn oath to deliver unto that worthy the souls of thirty Tyrolese—a contract, the recently publish- ed history of Upper Switzerland informs us, he performed with interest, delivering, instead, thirty-three. ASSERTION THAT TARY ARE TO BE SEIZED. “London “tar of the 10th instant says we are able on undoubted anthority that the government red the two steam rams which bave been the A Crew from - jorida to Df ere [From a Franco of Paris, Sept. 7.) ‘The Con’edorato cruiser Florida, at Brest, has just been informed of the docision come to by the government te- spectivg Der. Her commander bag entered Into errange- By a Jaw of the canton no bupter not born within tts | ments with a shiphroker in order to procure all the aup- mr lies he stands in boundaries Is allowed the privilege of, shooting upon its vas. tand mountains under the penalty of a heavy fine. Wo unto the hunter in the days of the older Coleni who eseayed to set foot om that forbidden ground. None evor ventured it gave here and there a daring Tyroler, and such nevor wont hunting chamois on the Alpine hills of the Engadin saye once, The mountains were his, he said, and no ® New | sumter. Woknow that should demand an oxact description of the arm»ment on one side and the protecting works on the other; wherens it is usually uncertain what guns are employed or against what defences.they are directed. We learn the results in general terms, but nothing more. Just now, however, we bave received a report which, although leaving much to be conjectured or inferred , does undoubtedly convey aremarkable piece of intelligence. It is annondced, on the authority of the General in com- mand of the bosiegers, that one of the Charleston forts— the famous Fort Sumter—has been practically demolished Wolsse Kreuz. Ho has been making a trip through the egies suffered as thoy havo from the operations | by the fire of batteries at a range of two miles or up- wards, This is an catraordinary feat, and ws such, ine deed, it seems to have been regarded by the combatants on both sides. The foderal 1 Gilmore makes a special report of it to his government, and communi cates also an opinion of General Peauregard—a moat competent judge—to the eect that the projectiles employed wore the most destructive missiles ever used-in warfare. But we are not told what these missiles were. Beyond the goneral com wo their efficiency From the terms in which they are spoken of, wo infer that Cad were shells. of some kind, and not solid shot, and we also learn that the bom! iment lasted seven collect, too, that toast. if not all of the wore armed some battories, with 200-ponnier Parrott gins, bat it isnot certain what class or classes of orduance are in that desig. pation. Of the number of actually employed agarpst the fort from day to day we have no anthentic return, and though we know that a powerful squadron took part in. the attack, we cannot tell exactly to what oxtent this co-operation was carried. Above all, we have no sufficidnt account of the dofences of Fort it was in itself an old fashioned pices of brickwork, and it had been recently strengthened by all the additions and supports which the ingenuity of the Confederate engineere could devise. ‘Still, though cotton bales and similar cover need of, On the Sth seventy-tive men | pear to have plerced'tbe walls through and led from the vessel, and have taken thi , Re’oro we offer any remarks on the operations thus re ure for 1d. for the of forming the mucteus of } ported, we wish to give some account of anothor exent of the crew of another ‘ate vessel constructed om the | the war to which’ attention bas not been sui wrdel of the Blorida, and which is mow ready to take the | dirpoted. A month or two ago a new Confederate: iron- sea. cla, called the ita, came out from Savannah to The English Abolitionists on the Rams, Tho Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society has sent to Far! Russel! a memorial on the subject stranger should invade them, The, cunning old fellow | or fitting ont steam rams for the Confederates, a copy of always evaded the p:nelties of the law; for it was as | which is pubjirl much ag the life of a magistrate was worth to try him at ail; so that at last be was allowed to pursue bis courze in peace, He wasa great enemy of the Italian prigands, and frequently compelled them to return stolen property. All the poor loved and honored him; for be would never sce them de’rauded or oppressed, and his generosity fre- quently extended, though in secret, to the famtlics of the Tyrolege who feil upon his mountains at bis hands.g During bis bunting life be killed nearly four thousand chamois, by far the greatest number ever captured by any hunter. Colant apologetically atlowed, in speaking of his father, that he thought it very probable he might vow and then havo happened to hit a Tyrolor by mistake—be sboula not wonder if he had realy killed as many as three ot four in this way; but as for his having deliberately shot thirty-three im the manner avowed by the historical re- cords. why it was not 80, “You think,” sald I, “your father saw 4 Jittle rustling among the bushes, and aimed thereat, taking it tobe 3 chamois”? **Exnotly,’’ sald he. “You know 1g well as 1 do,” 1 replied, “that you believe no such a thing. Your father was the grand- cat old follow I know of, and you do very wrong im trying to take away from his glory. by denying those very acts which © these mountains 0 eharming thr.ugh their memory.” Colani satd ‘people in geveral aid not take that view of his father’s deeds, “Prosaic. individuals, then, quence what they a Nd fellow holding this’ great chain of Alpine hilis alone for a hi for it and bia. neighbors! What a character he must hay Now, honestly, my friend,” sgid I, you don't really believe the history is so very much out of the way after all, do you?” - ae’. said be, somewhat hesitatingly, ‘“perbaps Seiant Berner.yberland guide?” said 1 to “Treally think you ought not to allow them to go on, | cam not we. Mrz? = od right of | They ‘This is your groutd, aed you have full y rament gover 1, to forbid it, he man’s ier Of course,” he replied drily. nib ever read the Diavolezz! glacier, which they are determined to visit *”” iene ‘sadanger. Never,” said Colani: ‘and if by bo, toad they uld they could not find the way back. e my word for it, if they manage.to reach tbe Diavoloszi gia- “Tt must not be permitted,”” 1. “Let the old fool go on,” said ant, en pacha Fy Jenrn travellets wy eaid eet thonght a shade of the old Oblant it was recogn! wn ean sure of being lost?’ 1 questioned after. jt at . ‘AR mre as the glacier chasms over which he will are aan 5 wpnsaee.) “Then,” Theren| Taought | men on hed. The memorial is as follows: 27 New Proanernerer, F. C:, Sept, 4, 1863. To the Right Hon. Farl Roeser, her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affira:— My Torp:—The Committee of the British and Forotzn Anti Slavery Society feel constrained to address you on a subject which has for many months claimed their atten- tion, and which appears to them to be one now requiring immediate action on the part of her Majesty’s covert'- ment: they the construction and oqutpmentof veasols of war in the Mersey, and in the Clyds, and par- ticularly of two steam rams with turrets, intended forthe rebel or Confederate States of the American Union, to be emplnyod against the commerce of & Power with which we are st pence. J Your lordship is aware thet the society has for its ob- ject the extinction of slavery wherever it oxists; whore- fore they cannot view without deep concern the attempt, ¥ force of arms, which is being made by certain parties in the United States to constitute a bew and independe: republic, formed of slayeholding communities, wi one avowed ebject of perpeti slavery as an institutions nor regard without appreben- sivo the material assistance which ja being extended to them by the equipment of war vessels in British ports, in direct violation of the Foreign Fnlietmont act and of the Queen’s proclamation. Al the committee could urge man) urgent reasons for it mterference in the present. caso, they ge ‘grounds alone suet interference. 1 ible; nnd they therefore respectfully out earnestly en! her Majesty's government ly to prohibit the departure of the two stenm rams to until the constructors shalt Prodace satisfactory evidence that they are not intended for the rebel or Confoderate States. I have the honor'to be, my lord, your lordship’s obedient servant (on Dehalf of the committee) L, A. CHAMEROVZ0W, Secretary. a to the English ‘Aristoowande ny OP THR LONDON NEWS. in Fogiishman, one serious To THR Allow me to ask, ques. tion of our government—Why wo are friendly with a @ngace two of the Mon!tors—the Weehawken and tho Nahant—engnged'in the biockade of Charleston Atlanta was a larger and heavier veseel than either bor opponents, and carried six (9 whereas the Moni- tora carriea tut two each. — the Atlanta’s guns were only six-inch and seveo iteb guns, mounted two on exch broadside and two fore and aft, while the guna of the Monitors, carried in turrets,.were fi‘teen 1 pieces, throwing eolid shot of fonr hundred and forty pounds weight,” The Confederate ship commenced the action confidently with ber pivot guns, and fired three shote at the Weehawken, but to little purpose. The Weehawken then replied with one of her monstrons caunon, aud the first shot we are told “virtualiy docided the action” Te tore right throug the Atlanta's side, and knocked dow forty of bor crew. Four other shots followed, but the fifth discharge the Sout flag aud the battle was over, It had lasted scarcely fifteen minutes, and was finwhed ore the Nahant could get up, to: tike part. in The incident fs rcorded not only with @ natural gratification on tho partof the federals, but as convincing prof of the «ff. ciency—which has been somewhat stubbornl, omte tue Dahigren gum. We cannot deny that ‘the si ise etri one: bub we happen. on this occasion. to know, 801 of ite other side. The victors gave a specifica- and pitt. A tion of the armament and defences of the captured ship, ‘and itturns out that the four inches of wrought iroa plat. ing with which she waa armed mean only t of fron bars, two inches thick, placed one over the io short, ahe was a sccand Merrimac, and though Len pee we dare gay, to the skill of the shipwrights working difficulties, cau hardly be regarded a8 an efficient tron, / To return, however, tothe genoral question, we find two a priocipies esendily’ prosareed & Amerlooe peteiioe fo arelisry, the calibro of the gun and the weight of the shot are made a8 great as possible; in shipbariding, ti oa a revels or every other. These privet , L00, appear ic. rome degree connected if wo are to asuume—whal has not yet ben proved—that ovly turret ships cam carr: y heavy guns. Bat nether one principle nor the other. has yet been reoognized this country. Weare buflding turret ships, it among other models: but we preference, while sucha or flee humiret-pounter it ts tre ve not given them any @s a four Aas net been conceived. system t government abroad, aud at the same time allow based— throwtog heavy pro‘estil deannce ot a taw made to iorbvent tus same) our . ae eelocitee cand to rely vebeity making shipbaders Construct men-of-war for a band weight. It must be bered, however, of Con! rebels that government which we ‘yin some of contraat Between are at pence with? Theycan only be for war purposes; two systems. that the are thaping ali their and as only a foreign government can require such, why. according to the exceptional requirements of & foe the order from thas Power | gpecial emergency. They build their shigm for coass could only show two ‘a8 ordering such, If work and harbor service only ft ts by Bo medne certain sult: I for private partion ten they ough to be prevented He wkes wate weet co teuan en es leaving this country. Ti may be very tonatla wontae |Salgnaed guyy for such’ work as Gey eave tases upper ten thousand with the save aris |' ing, whereas the ¢ nditions of owr cxperiments aré far more pg hp ay 'n haertle ‘doth political and roe . ad ore When ese ihe pred rember our shores for that py SF a lust he amore great country, and as out of Rat A eo by Log cans are wrong. The were once beaten of common fellows, what will be our fealings? What of mi cry forts. now beep a having sisters and all that is very dear to me, if we ; but 1 seem as if the abore tatterien our men-of-war bombarding New York eity, know! ‘an inferior part in Pegi Oe pan KK as We we are not however, any 5 Ab to and make the here, we will Soogmiete with ‘accuraay moana were quietly the to be on Cccasion on either and in what we are {n print upea. either the attack or defence had or Ge- ion; ‘mot our gentry suppore there ts no detween the and the at North heres Pray wll. make an ‘wo ave that the Dave not only geined (go to war with UT Ay advantages oved a Te $a : cane ‘Let them ‘the mea ‘a modern fort, we bad fairly me to thank for or good send me ‘80 means f} cause, If you ‘is, ‘te. armed. our judg AT, road, Doletéa, | ourselves with the svcces- Serredera 2 which this war produces fos our ingtruc- eee confess, on cain Abeee . sipruss tenant ce sare | Pt which may Whe tword trom ite ere oon 8 ty, in order that ierosoary’ dire the spoils of the asumed a rulers than the “ Ball with iar pleasure Bee ound tint a Y than by hesita- Ee Maile eas Ernfociase sack a8 would er Pea ict tte ha, ave bo Wofet of the law, the prnccodings which Dont Lin evverimaat: hare ettlet to lane wan a oteenety noe jee to Enalish public opinion Gaan to the oF na 0 whe E2 93 1303—14iPL" SHERT.. red | gon rat Ngpe » Reporkss; | Of her. She mode a paceace from Glasgow to Copenta- A letter writata om the 20th ¥ from tho litter plage gives the followfng account oder cai and steam. of J of her performacrs — ee at durtim which abe behaved very much bette tl bad expected.” Everybody is welt pleased with her. Again, a letter of later date atates:— T have t@ acknowledge the recetut of your kind note of the 274 of To this with tho more pleasure short, and in every way succesal iy more than Aweek, and I ant happy to aay thas the tu aro working portactly welt; (hey are castly tweued rownd Uy circle in Hifle more than three minutes (The laree turret in the Royal Sovere:m can make one revolution ia two mt nutes’, and the firing the guns has not proved the least troublesome to the men working them, Again, in another letter, dated Copenhagen, August 3. 1863, it is stated: — The Roanoke was butlt in 1855; she ia of the same class as the Niavars, Minnesota, Wabash, Colorado and Merrimac. The company of Noveit> Tronworks took the contract, aud tha work was done under the superintendence of rovermment arents, This Crivalo ts covered with plates three an halt inches to four and one-Lalf inches thickness fro. foot above the water. She will have (hres front and two behind the centre of the ship. are on Kriceson's plan, and will each be armed with two -Afinen inch guns, Bhe will also have a rant in front. | The plates of the ram will be four and one-half inches thick and wenty- feet long, which will form om her stem a wedge inches thy 1 towers will be twenty-one feet in diam ter, and the casing eleven inchea of thickness, Each plo Of the towers inning inchea long and forty inches broad. ey are ploroed with iwo rows of holes \for rivels, and are Lent cold hy means of very powerful hydraulic pressure. ‘The outside plates are made to ft the sides of the alin ex: actly which is a long operation. One plate. oleven fect Jong, weighs four thousand two hundred and forty pounds, and those of the race cask weigh four tons, The noke jonce no inconvenience what- esc anata ay a na Part of either the shid of cupolas when the wlaty- Pounders (Danish), with solld shot, are fired,” & SAY So much for the success of the Rolf Krako, a ship which merely reprosents a class, while veascls of var: types and sizes are being built In England to a very large extent for other countries on my principle. The Americans aro not only improving theirs, built after the design of their first Monitor, but are putting turrots into ships of the usual form, as ts the case with the Roanoke, an old ffty-gno ry ritchie bare ceed he and fitted somewhat on tho same plan as ¢! Sovereign, and although not intended for a soagoing abip, as a proof that her seagoing qualities have not been destroyed by this opera- tion, wo have lately heard of her having mado s most Anecesatnt passage from New York to Hamptoa Roads, A full description ts given in the Revue Maritime et Colo- niale for March, and a few extracts from it will give some ‘dea of her formidable yee _ In fact, this vossel will represent a small Royal Sovo- reign, carrying six 440-pounters. But perhars nothing teods more to prove the confi dence which the oxperionce gained in actual warfare has Riven the Americans with regard¥to this principle than the fact that they are still elaborating, atan enormous cx- pense, the construction of vessels of the Monitor type, What they are doing in the matter will best-be seen by a com- munication to one of their daily papers, dated Leayen- worth, August 3, 1863:— The fron-ciad Canonicas, combining in herself the Mont. tor and the steam ram, has-been launched from the yard of Mr. HG, Loring, at South Boston. She im the Sat one completed of nine of her class ordered by government at different yards in the country. Conaiderab'e delay has been caused in the building of those vessel by thelr par- Hal reconstruction, to: Include the improvoment scagestad by the first Charleston fron-ciad fight. She ‘has more than double the propelling power of any iron-clad an expected to make eleven or twelve knots an hour, The plating of her upper hull (s five inches thick, hacked by and aed to two beams of wrought iron six es thick by em, aeentred in the woodwork and runi n‘trely round, thus Making a belt of tron thirteen in broad and six {nches thick ander her plating, or a total thickness of eleven Inches of wrought iron above water. When ready for sea only eighteen inches of her upper bull will rise above the Water, aud that painted white, 90 as to he invistble at a dis- tance, She was launched with her machinery in her— namely. two turret engines. two prim) ing engines, two blow. ing engines and two propelling epglues. to which condensers wil be added, Her prope!ling engines together are of seven Iyndred horse power. Ter turret will be iwelve inches ick and her pilot house ten inches thick, ber smokep'pe eight inches, and from ber bow projects from the upper hull w of strongly framed tron, twelve feet {n length. Hee ment in her single tueret will cone'st of two fiften inch igron guns (loge hundred and forty-pounders). | She is mubuetig one of, the most formidab‘e and elective Jon joa! Captal Rogers is to. command her. de hawken at Waraaw Sound at the’ the Atlanta, ‘The dimensions of the vessel are undred and thirty-seven fect long, thirteen and a half feet deep..and forty-six feet beam: the depth of her upper hull being five feet, and her displace- ment of water about !,700 tons. Her Pace In the shiphorse Will be taken by a side-wheel fron war sieamor of 1.6) tons burden. called the Winnipec, which Mr. Loring is ‘to build immediately for, the government, He ig also constructing the marhinery for a first-class loop-of-war, The Canonicns has yet to receive touches, which will t veascl went oT the w: That this principle has not heen applied by the Ameri- cans to tem going or cruising ships, is clearly attributable to the fact that, under existing circumstances, svch vessels are not required, while the whole energies of their govern- ment havo to be applied to providing the best description , of Iron-etads for coast and river operations, for which the fully rigge! sea going vessol ia iI) adapted, Jn the action between the Weehawken and the Atlanta wo have aconclusive instance, which I will pause to con- seider. Without supposing either of there iron clads to bo a perfect specimen of theelass to which {t belongs, we know that the Atlanta was at least three times as larre ag \he Weehawken, carried three times the number of guna, and that the Confederates had such vonfidence in bet powers that. they felt certain of capturing two of thease turret ships and doing great damage to the federal ficet. Bat, instead of this, she was captured by one turret ship to the short space of fifteen minutes, from the effect of ve shots. docs not this action prove, in a manver beyond all controversy or doubt, "hat a vessel that can carry there Aeary guns (four hundret and forty pounders, with which the turret ship was armed) must be irresistible agcinst shipt of the present broadvide construction, that are reduced com- paratively toas hololess a state whon matched acainat surret chips as wooden +bips would be against ordinary broadside iron-clads? port ; With these facts before us, our own iment s on board the Trusty with a capola in 1861 (a description of which was published in my lecture given at the United Service Institution in March, 1863, and isto be bad at Harrison's, 68 Pali Mali and Griffin’s, the and with a three Cerspi ge aia ing the Warrior's side at suifetent data to make us pause before committing our- selves still more deeply to the box, or broadside. tem, and it appears to mo that the gests the following question in — If the Weehawken. with one turret and two fifteon Inch guna, ay shot of four hundred and forty pound | weight, took the Atlanta in fifteen minutes, bow it take the Roanoke, with three turrets and ‘six of theaame calibre, to cipture or destroy, any Droatelde- port ffon.clad that we have, armea with smooth bore 8 xty-eight-pounders or bind one and ten pounders (of professedly inferior power) being at — _ heaviest guns which we have for service in the mavy It strikes. me that this isa very sérious matter, for whil the Americans are mannfarturing these and forty-pounders at the rute of one per day, an: clads now al are dat'y grining expartence in their ication to the purposes of Saval Warfare, we Mace not as yet @ trial gun, ip afloat that can ca 3 have thoroughly the necessity these heavy guns, and of having ahips of special them: The Danes have a turret Sop, bullt in Buglaad. at nea, and. ctber govern: ebip, bollt in + Ab Ben, ol - ments are having them rapidly butit tn our ‘The Americans sole a march upon ua at ment of the last war, ond ibis a matter of hit navy suffered in ‘ar it,. Us wo ongbt at least to be able to feel some conddence pam Nem nye eyes ew meee we have T have the honor to be your obedient nervant, Sovrnazs, Sept. 4, 1863. COWPER 1. COLES THE AMERICAN QUESTION, — Recognition and the France-Rebel Allie ' gmee. ident of the London Herald The Paris repeats bis former assertion that both the ition of the South and the défensine leagne Leftoran ‘ne , Prench ond o4 ie 9.) of deta ba sea in South- been the American struggle betw; bys have beeo made upon every particular HEM § E i H i Bt ei: i i if 4 im om hay py fo inform you that the Rolf Krake arrived tor a very ful, ve x t ee thom. The position (hat the French government Onde it sol im és di and deticale, and you may depend that tho Moxicam affair is at thie momemt (he principal subject “oe Tm erie id cig. artic the deltef t to article, says that 4 ent oF tho Moxious wil bo ‘under Froneh anaplood; but it is not likely thas any dotwite conditions will be announced untid tho Of the throno and sho formaitm of the have bece formally notified, reaction In Mexican stock oa the owing, it was said, to sales by Dutch Viow of remliging profits. Leopold, of tum, Approves of Max- Htan, Paris (Sept. 7) correspondence of the London Prat.) mentioned in my letter yesterday that the King of tho Belgians, in an interview with a dislinguiaited porson, had stated that he spoke im favorable terms of the accops — ah the throne of Mexico by the Archduite Maxt- The Memorial Diplomatique gaya it ie authorived from fo pircmation to f= Oe follow ing sta‘oment:— y# since King pold, we speaking to a bigh personage from whom we have those details, declared that be perfectly comprehended that the Providential mission fallon to his son-ia-iaw was of a nature to tempt tho uoble @ibition of a young prince a0 richly endowed with those h mako great kings. His Majesty added tat Stems aback!ing the establishment of loxico by conditions which would ne- cessitate long avd difficult 7 sopontetned ought, on the contrary, to show itself moderate 10. ‘prosence of the cothusiasm which that candidateship excites among the Mexican people. Tn our daye,” added big'‘Ma‘exty, “the most effectual ‘antec for the duration and gtability of thrones retdes in the aptitude and peraonal merit of the eure ign and, in that Posufet, Loa say, with just and imate pride, that no can is to be compared with that of my son-in-law.’ " now government atmil There had bees a slight London ¢ houses with s The Polish Kevolation. ‘Thore is no change in the position of afaira. The Parte Pavs, in an article signed by the secretary of the paper, while criticising the tive to the Frankfort question, with- situation. out arowi embarrassment in the general ing Prussia. The dissolution of the Chambers in and consequent appeal to the people ® new olection, asteacted the attention f the continental public, and forent motives are assigned for this exercise of the authority, Tho one most rally accredited is tt people at largo will be of an thelr approval of the Sikes Oasmemea ioe eraceme a ed by ustrie in to his own views, rather than to forward the interosts of Germany. Greece. Another ministerial crisis is (Pept. ‘T) close at hand. e Geapoe, but the Ministry could: ee tte in oboite. The lent and the thros Ministers belonging to the Bulgarist party brought Font candidates, but on finding themascives in the mino- posed that. several candi os rity they pro} dates ag first be chosen, and that the ambassador mark should then be elected by the candidates selves. This proposition, howover, was not accepted ; and as General Kalergis had the majority of votes jo his favor, this being declared by the: President, the ‘our Ministers, viz: Kallogas. Nikolopulos, Mauromichalts toudered their resignations. Mesntime the fall number of representatives—one hundred and st: five—not being present in Athens, the:As. ‘3 bored, however, that oy te. bogtaa is hoped, however, that by September the required number of representatives will have arrived i town. Tt is generally believed that a min‘sterial change wili take place if the Mintsters ‘do not aucceed im soene their differences before the sitting of the As- sembly. Foreign Theatricals. CHARLES MATHEWS’ PIRST APPEARANCE AND REORP- SION IN PARIS, {From the London News, Sept. 9.) Mr Charles Mathews, the ain comedian, made his first appearance upon tho French stage at the Theatre dew Varietes, in Paris, on Monday ni ‘The selected: was a voraton in ¥ronch, under the title of “Un bags #4 the cepenieas one of the — ” Our ‘corr jont, writing on iv sives the following account: uf tho: perform success at the Varietes as I shonid have beengiad to have recorded, and aa {tok be deserved. It is alwaye an Ons task for an actor to play in @ and before such a erttical 1s Porldan ome the ordeal is doubly’ fri comparative failure fo any degree attributab! ‘sperks French better than heard. Indeed, bis easy, graceful Pronunciation might be envied by many #ronchman, and the ae mene ally perceptible wag ~ detriment at all w 2 bv farce as .* From the moment stepped ‘upen the stage it was obvious that all the culties of a had been overcome with mar- valous feticity. Ait he speaks with the which be inherits from bis father, every word was ble ae every < houge, and’ It there ‘an audtence for Mr. Mathows. 1 beard the merest accttent’that he was to make bis first at Varicties to-night, andcould iy. before sat #9 out of aaeeth ones bo that exch a event msking more noise door ihe Varietion, Anglais was by no means ful the “‘Basbfa! Man” began & darlesque potor. a iit i iz Ll i i a ; | el Ly Soniribeted, in sone Sha to vindieste our flan Presario cont bY We Sri arthur La Meg ty