THE MAY MAIL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 7, Issue 354, 30 July 1863, Page 3

THE MAY MAIL

The Claud Hamilton with the English Mail on hoard arrived' at Wellington at 11 a.m. on Monday.; We understand 50 men for the Mounted Police Force of this Province, under Capt. Leatham, have arrived at Wellington. A Mr. Lillecrap who has been about twelve/months in Wellington is appointed Sub-Inspector. The Stations on the West Coast are not yet decided on. We are surprised that the force is apparently not to be officered from among the residents in the various districts, whose local knowledge would have contributed greatly to the practical utility of the force. The chief intelligence by tlie Mail is the following : The ll'illiam Carey left the dovms on the 17th. May for, Wellington. The Asterope and John Banyan were loading at London for. Wellington, and the Affi ancc for Wellington and Hawke’s Pay. The Australian March mails were delivered in London on the 16th and 21st of May. The Queen left for Scotland on the 14th of. May, and intended returning on the 7th of June, The Prince and Princess of Wales were going a round of gaiety. The vacant Garter was to, be conferred no Earl de Grey! , Parliamentary news is dull. Better relations are established between England and the Northern . States on the vexed question of international law. The pi’oposals of New South Wales and New Zealand to establish a mail; service via Panama are positively declined bj* the British Government. - . The distress in ’Lancashire and the manufacturing districts was slowly decreasing. Government propostd to employ 70,000 of the unemployed on municipal works, and the reclamation of waste lands, under the superintendence of the Boards 1 of Health. One thousand emigrants left’ Manchester on the'2Bth of April en route for New Zealand.

- Recruiting forthedFederal iirniy is exten sivelv carried on in' Ireland.

- The emigration to America is estimated at upwards of 5,000 persons per week The garotting panic is over. The House of Commons has passed the bill for flogging garottersTransportation to Queensland and the Northern Coasts is no more talked or. The Times says—Government fully recognises the difficulties, of tlie New Zealand question to colonists, but requires from the latter a policy towards the Natives most prudent and liberal, in return for the protection afforded them by the Queen’s troops at the cost of Great Britain. •The ■Secretary-:'of - War lias overruled the decision :of tlie Horse Guards, and General Cameron will continue in command of the. New Zealand troops. England, France, and Austria have again addressed notes to the -Russian--Go-vernment on 'the Polish question, urging clemency, grant of free institutions, and the fulfilment of the treaty of 1815.

The insurrection in Poland is spreading. Russian troops mostly defeated.' Amnesty by Russian Government again' rejected.. ' ■ The Bank rate of discount, 4 per cent. Money in demand..

The wool opened on the 4th Afyril with an average of Id to• l'-|d lower than the March prices. Arrivals, 26,000 bales. Loudon. 2nd June. A difficulty lias arisen, and there is probability of rupture in diplomatic relations between England and Brazil. Affairs, in- Prussia are hastening to a crisis. The t ham her of Deputies has been closed, t i The Greek affair has been settled. The Provisional Government agree to accept the Danish Prince as King. AMERICA. New York, May 14 The 2nd and 3rd May two tremendous engagements took place at Chancellor,sville.: between the Confederates under Generals Lee and Jackson, and the Federals under “Fighting Joe Hooker.”'

Both armies fought with desperation and the slaughter was frightful. The Federal.s were again totally defeated. Their loss is estimated-at 20,000 men. The Confederate loss was about L-qOOO men placed-hors de combat. On tlie 20th April General 4®boker ■ effected a passage of the Rappahannock ' at two points two miles distance from each other with an effective army of 100,000 men,, encountering'little opposition while crossing ; liis plan was to> pi-ess quickly on with liis right ,w mg to the rear of the Confederates, and thus place them between two bodies of his army, and thereby cut off the Confederate communication with Richmond. Hooker was so confident of the success of this movement as to boast that the expected engagement would almost annihilate the Southern armies, but on the 2nd May that indomitable soldier General Stonewall Jackson, by a secret aud swift march, suddenly gfell upon the Federalright wing with 40,000 of the best troops of the Confederates. The onslaught was so tremendous and crushing that a universal panic spread through the whole of the regiments.

The Federals threw down their arms and lied ; all attempts-to rally them were vain, and Jackson, pushing furiously on, nearly turned the Federal dank. The next morning Jackson resumed the attack, the battle raged fiercely for three hours and a half; again were the • Federals repulsed, and again- they fled, pursued by Jrckson’s division. Sheer exhaustion at last closed the flight and pursuit. The fierce attack of Jackson placed the Federals in such a position that they could only extricate themselves by flight. On the 5-h Alav the famous ariny of the Potomac, 1 eaten at all points again; returned to its former lines

In Sunday’s battles General Stonewall J ekson received t'.o wounds by mistake, unfortunately by his own men, one wound was in his arm, and amputation was resorted to, but the Southern General died under its effects, regretted by all admirers of true greatnessand genius combined with strong religious faith. The Federal General, Berg was also killed. Most conflicting accounts of the above engagements agitated' public feeling in the North. : In spite of the crushing defeat and retreat of the federals, < eneral •• oo er, in a pompous address to-his ai my denied that a grneral engagement had- been fought; “it was,” lie says, “ merely awithdrawal from the Rnppalmnnoc'q for stiategic reasons,” and not a defeat. This gasconading is characterised hv even the New York press ns a boastful and arrogant lie. The Federals have captured Grand Gulf on- the'Mississippi.