FEBRUARY 27, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL — 
the south side of the Rapidan. Gene 
feni ia full force in the Federal front. After SN 
sirmishing in which the Federals are reported to have 
t fro to 300 they 
hat, as a punis ment for heinous crimes, it was practically an 
lighter than TM er ee E minor offences. 
lieved it was possible to e a certainty of puni unishm 
with remissions of the teddpló, “which would be most bel 
1e Poor-law Comi 
los men, returned to their old for good conduct; but it was essential g into 
quarte he Federal communication between Knox use dela T 
ville and Cumberland Gap was cut off by the Con mn "res 
federates on the lOth. An express train has been place the chief of the R^ "bá oon 
captured eight miles ctm MÀ x inte and the sun te vore & A terror to no 
passengers obbed. It e whether the Jon vict o repo 
— Mr -— by the eed rtm or y gangs of 
s. Knoxville despatches o 
et diat den Federal cavalry was defeated: in = 
engagemen nt near Mary red Dd was retreating u 
Knoxville, with the Confedera in pursuit. Selen 
officers were k »* 
are again threatening Newbern and W ton, 
North Carolina. The Confederate ironclad gunboat a 
Kin s CO! pleted, and will co-operate with th 
ville, and surmises that its object may be to attack 
eorgia, to ema General J chnstond s main army 
has retired. Telegram of the 
that Gen. Sher 
ince to Meridan, and unite with a cavalry — 
swe advancing eae Natchez. Sherman’s movement 
said to be in Prag’ to flank Johnston 
and Georgia, rather 
Despatches from Fo sated 
nabled ka e e ed the intended surprise. 
The siege a t Chant eston has been raised, and Admiral 
eft n the flag-ship for St. 
ederal expedition, w with 
hdd E i jacksonville Florida, 
oou 
E 
arge F 
oats, left Port E on x E inst., and | & 
whic 
f the 31st | bac 
inds, remained 
naturally — Peru 
the 
‘ood Pome sings pe tee resorting 
demoralising, a 
then — to. 
-— 
& most degrading, 
and futile coercion. The motion for returns was 
PFT ted Seizure of the Steam Rams.— —The 
of her Majest; 
and intim: ed ae tegen but 
been any acs te ei to the piper, Horner o 
t the papers 
inqui 
He 
Should, therefore, decline state w! —The 
Earl of MALMESBURY ask he noble un to Tocladb iioii e ter would be prod» 
the Danish papers about to be supplied to Parliament a copy | would 
of the correspondence which had led to the Treaty of 1852.— | given the House information as to the evacuation of Jutl 
ould be no difficulty in including by — ar P 
those papers in the n: instalment gf laid upon the table. 
Case of Captain Whyte. —In answer to the Marquis of CLANRI- 
RussELL said that the claim of Captain Melville | dark 
Whyte on the Government of Peru had been referred to the Denmark, -— 
conversation with the ssian mister t atthe invasion of | th 
Jutland tok place without the por of the Prussian Com- | House on 
mander-in -Chief, and that as Denmark had made the war | into com manne 
of those — and retain * cud ma rantee ” 
ed.—In reply to the Yn of ELLEN- 
BOROUGH, Earl RORA said | that he had M to believe that Government was - entitled to =  Crtdenes 
the Austrian Government would endeavour to moderate the 
actions of their generals. 
[Left sitting.] as her Maje 
ee ol they were ad uite 
Y, 0 
f the House on "their 
Ort 
HOUSE COMMONS. bi r i 
FRIDAY.—The Northern Circuit.—Sir J. Hay moved an address the Government without giving them noti: 
tha 
dispatches for the Confedera tot ie Queen, praying her Majesty to nominatethe town of Wake- ane of the noble lord at sbabess. E. the Government, 
On the night of the the assize town for the West mAr, LEATHAM Bopposing, es majority wore panne ne Gore ern 
Charleston r, fon gained by a surprise. 
a nob disco — ntil t bd morning of the dis (3 hime Gees were in gus advocated by LII 
hw " mpi d was landing her mme cpm hue 
cargo under prm guns w Tort Moultrie, e Federal 9? "S e yo House di divided, w hen ihe motion was age tired ey net te ation. by his t har 
batteries opened on her, d short p Afterwards she 133 to 119. 
sank, The Conscription Bill ^us g ssed Co gress, 
ves between the ages oi d bl 4 
; loyal owners to be ho; Gener: ral fà 2 oan Be howev MÀ gane KELUIN considered » but reasonable that before the 
Meade has made a p at Philadelphia, stating that | 7 red upon an never — $ day's duty with a asked to vo! navy it sh ae 
since March, 1861, 1 00,000 men of the Potomac army —Colonel Dioxso arked that this co — = D 
have been killed ne wounded. The German Republi- 
+ of “at Jersey have omm in favour of Butler, — — 
remont, or any other ical candidate for the > Mr. Hexiey recommen 
Pay who e palenta 1 an emancipation and | w, em er Mene nn 
confiscation quas puke -— li fa: ax aeir Court h as | 
restored the C 
on the payment v the les expenses. - 
(ament. 
OUSE RDS. 
AY.— Metropolitan Railways.—In reply to the Earl 
Denovomions Earl GRANVILLE said —_ the oec Committee 
Servitude. — The Marquis of SALISBURY | by 
the number of convicts under sentence of| considerable discussion 
of tii, 
apers. 
megitived by 
uti 
received by her Majest ty's Government | that it would be a breac 
— ir TEM were forwarded to Government to make an 
g him to ask for im -— e 
redress from the American Governmen t. 
managem Maj ajesty'sn val yards, 
4%: m: and i vn sted that the eerte Miss = € vommissionerg 
ought carried into effect. —Mr. BEN tha! 
Bou 
Mr. "Pusidoans e d Mr. gd col 
the note in end e rum foni Scottish P Courts.—The LORD 
House several apog leave to bring in a Bill to make 
by Sir by Bir Geoncx - ey ~~ A thi - " - 
when the | ten a render i ner ain Bee eme han 
ur - 26. The clauses | Hastincs Russ : ded tl . GREY wou ald 
and the Chair-| cot owen the introduction o i the 1 Bill, but would reserve his 
Bi ^ to the House. | opinion upon it until the second reading. ave was given 
read a secon Prose called att ention to 
i mcn 
amendment was 
ve a ti 
they had no de 
but n contrary. me that vm be far m 
tal punishm: ? i e 
icem re anded 1 the motion. —Sir G. GREY was 
ishment 
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