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Tins DAY.—Morning, 6h. Om.—Afternoon,; 6h. 28m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 7h. Om.—Afternoon, 7h. 58m. ~ ~ , :,,, t ,„ 4 .Fib •P 4-,„,-_ , !' '', wx, % N'ex, -,,,-,', IL , • k 1,4 !.! 1 ,•,' _ --`,;', ,•1 6 ';'‘ ' ~,-' , r,Tpt: k z ,, >'l, -.,: ; ' '',.,1 - r , ...-. 4 .„,..,.., 1,•,-, ; 7,-„ ri ,L,•• -7•„ ~ -, , ~-,,,,,, f ,l 0 - ..: ~ , 1.• , '. p •-___- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1862. Again u.ll Bociro-pe is looleing with almost "crreetlx less interest to the Potomac. Even apart from the merits of the case, it is impossible to watch the changes in such a vast and exciting game without unconsciously attaching ourselves, in imagination, to one of the combatants, or at least without I being all expectation to see which shall win. Four days hard fighting had all gone in favour of the Federals ; that is according to Federal accounts. We must, however, bear in mind that the information respecting the first of these dhys only—Sunday the 14th --rests on the despatches of the General in command, M.CLEL LAN. All the other battles up to the 17th, Wed nesday, we know about only from newspaper reports, and though there seems no reason to doubt their substantial truth, yet they may prove gravely incorrect. Even they, however, left another battle to be fought on the 18th to settle who should be master. On this battle depends the expulsion of the Confederates from Maryland or their continuance in it. It is not to be concealed that New York has been uneasy that three or four days should pass without, the Government having communicated its own information to the public. The consequence was that the premium on gold actually advanced again after it had fallen. There are very different opinions as to the strength of the Confederates. Some maintain, in America we mean, that M'CLELLAN has encoun tered little more than their advance. This we cannot believe. LEE himself has never been with the advance before, and it seems certain that he was present, and commanding in person. Both sides als o were mustering their reinforce ments, and it is remarkable that from the day of the first battle of Bull's Rub, to the second one, the supports of the Confederates have always arrived just at the right nick of time to rout the wearied Federals. With such apparent equality of forces, and after the Federals have in turn had their vie torita it is difficult, indeed, to conjecture which aide will win the next battle north of the Potomac. - Here in England, we might toss up or bet on the chances, " evenly do probabilities appear to be balanced. Both parties have a great immediate stake to fight for. The Federals regard Maryland as in any ease a Union State; and the behaviour of the inha bitants, so far as 'At advanced, seems to show that the Union feeling predornir tea. The Confederates seem to have been nepzi J as much mistaken in the amount of feeling they found favourable to the South as the Federals were i n l oo k ing for Union feeling in Vi rg i n i a . Th e M arylanders did not, as expezted, rise in a mass, even when such able friends as LEE and J ACKSON were i n the midst of them. Hence the Federals will fight to the last to drivr, *the Confederates out of a State in which lin:ionl -- em now predominates. Oa th e other hand, the con- They federates want food a n d clothes. had been livitN, according to accoun t s from all sides,g green corn and appl es "— to remain in a State -where the war had not yet wasted the provisions must be a great object with them, not to mention the prestige of carrying the war into the terri tories of the enemy. If driven across the Potomac, it is probable that the Southern army will find one of its greatest difficulties to be that of procuring food. In Northern Virginia it can find none, for it is completely desolated and almost depopulated by the war; and it would have to turn aside into the famous Valley of the Shenandoah merely to subsist itself. It would no longer threaten Wash ington ; and BURNSIDE is now in Harper's Ferry, at the mouth of the Valley Both sides h ave , inducement therefore, every to fight with unusual energy for the posse6sion of Maryland —both were left on the 17th in a position of seeming equality--the rival parties are evenly matched in this game of blood, and we await, therefore, with no little curiosity the result of the battle—of all the North against all the Sonth. We had hardly written the above when we re ceived the telegrams which our readers will find in our Latest News. From these it appears that the Confederates have been compelled to evacuate Mary land entirely. The Federals have possession of Harper's Ferry, by which the Confederates crossed, and are therefore completely triumphant. M'CLEL LAN will now be again the hero of the hour, and deservedly so. With a force, so far as is known, not disproportionately large, he has completely beaten, in fair fight, the two ablest Confederate Generals. He has turned the tide. It is, however, from his own shores, and the Federals will be wise if they use the hour of victory, not to plan fresh invasions and hazard fresh defeats, but to offer a settlement on fair terms. WILLIAM PALMER, infamous in the annals of crime as a secret poisoner, appears to have been at length in some measure surpassed in atrocity, and this, too, by a woman. The wretched criminal who was condemned to death on Saturday last for the cruel murder of Mrs. SOAMES must henceforth have her most execrable name remembered not simply coupled with a miserable creature like Madame LA FARGE, but with miscreants like the female BORGIA, the dark-eyed, the dark-haired, the dark-souled— and the fair and flaxen Duchess de BRINVIL LIERS. If in nothing else, in the signal and start ling atrocity of its crimes the nineteenth will have only too fear fully and undeniably a claim to pre eminence among the centuries. And one of the very blackest among these foul blots upon the so cial records of this time, will be the terrible record made there of the career of CATHARINE WILSON. It was but in the June of this very year 1862 that, upon another charge of poisoning —the attempted murder of a woman with sulphuric acid—this mise rable wretch was tried in that same dock in whieh , before the close of September, she heard her self at length pronounced Guilty by a Jury and condemned to death by a Judge for another, an earlier, attempt that had unhappily proved successful. "It is very seldom," said the judge, " that I think it any part of my duty, in a case of this or any other description, to express either concurrence or dissent with the ver dict of a jury ; but upon the present occasion I am bound to say that, in my opinion, the jury could not have arrived at any other conclusion than they have done, consistently with the facts that were laid before them. I never heard a case where it was so clearly proved that a murder was committed, and where the excruciating pains and agony of the victim were watched with so much deliberation by the murderer." Those closing words are surely strong enough, in every way, as an attestation volunteered by the Judge as to his own abso lute conviction of the prisoner's guilt. But stronger still were his lordship's words in reference to another crime of a similar kind, a crime for which the prisoner was not then being tried, but for which, if acquitted in the case then before the court, she certainly would have been tried and that immediately. Referring to that other charge of poisoning, the poisoning of Mrs. ATKINSON, the Judge said emphatically in the course of his remarks on Saturday—" If the jury had acquitted you upon the present charge you would have been immediately put upon your trial for this murder." Adding, "I have read the depo t situ.. in this case most caretully and anxiously, and the result upon my mind is, that I have no more doubt that you committed that crime than if I had seen it committed with my own eyes !" The mere catalogue of these Secret Poisonings by . CATHARINE WILSON—Two of them Attempted, Five of them Accomplished—revolts the imagination. Her two ineffectual attempts at Poisoning were those made upon the life of the woman, for the all but completed murder of whom in June last the Prisoner, now under sentence of Death at Newgate, was tried but eventually ac quitted. The other case of attempted murder by poisoning at her fell hands, occurring in the course of last year only, in the instance of a young man named TAYLOR, with whom the miscreant was living when the crime was all but perpetrated ! " Fortunately for him," as the Judge remarked on Saturday, " remedies were immediately resorted to and he recovered." Putting aside from enumera tion upon the black list now drawn up against this Great CriminaI—CATHARINE WILSON is nOW charged with, is now known to have committed the following Five Dreadful Murders by Secret Poisoning : I. The murder of Mr. MAWER. 11. The murder of Mr. DIXON. 111, The murder of Mrs. JACKSON. IV. The murder of Mrs. ATKINSON. V. The murder of Mrs. SOAMES. Of the last-mentioned murder, the second or third of the five chronologically, the wretch, after a very patient and careful trial, has been formally proved and deliberately pronounced Guilty. Of the mur der of Mrs. ATKINSON, the fourth upon this fearful list of Secret Poisonings, she was deemed to be so ominously guilty by the judge who tried her in the ca se of Mrs. SOAMES, that, as we have said, his lordship declared himself to be as perfectly satisfied in his own mind and conscience that she had com mittedMrs.ATKlNSON as though he seen her do it ! In every With h o h a eged against her, iseookinnoe: his own eyes, .had,vi murder upon same appallingahe instance d the have evidenceknown to In every i nstance th e c • deliberation. rim e is per petrated for licney. In the i nstance of Mrs. SOAMES the murder wa s perpet rate d with the in tention of getting som e £3O or £4O! T he mur deress in this case more o ver, when the infernal crime her grasp upon n o ni o , was accomplished, laying obtained by than £9 sterling as the booty , 4ree t om of con - atrocity. It is possible, _...tie—•fright fully possible—that CATHAR INE V e ILSON May have been guilty of more tten these five crimes of murder by poisoning. But, at any rate, these five we have enumerated have been brjught distinctly home to her. In the instance of MAWER, it appeared, wh en C ATHARINE liTasoN's history came to be ex am i ne d i nto, t h at i n 1853 and 1854 she was living in the house of this person named MAWER, as his managing servant or house keeper, down at Boston in Lincolnshire. Making his will in March—a will leaving the whole of his small property to WILSON, his housekeeper— MAWER died in the Oct. following : quite manifestly, as it now turns out, from the extensive administra tion of colchicum. Two years after MAWER'S death, WILSO N • • is livin g with the young man DIXON, not down in Roston, but up here in London—in lodg ings —at th e house of Mrs, SOAMES. DIXON dies in 1856. Mrs. SOAMES expires labouring under pre cisely the same ho rr ible torments that preceded the sudden death of MAWER and afterwards of DIXON. Mrs. JACKSON breathes her last after an agonising illness of four days' duration, Mrs. ATKINSON also after an illness of four days. The sufferings endured by each of those unhappy v i t c itns excruciating charact er . Retchi being o f t h e same n g, violent purg ing, vomiting, mnd an agony indescribable. Re meraburing the number _of these atrocious crimes thus coolly perpetrated by C ATHARINE WILSON, remembering the time that had e l apse d during their perpetration before this dastardly and deliberate murderess by secret poisoning had at length been brought to justice, we could hardly feel ' surprised when the learned judge exclaimed on Saturday :—" These facts render it extremely pro bable the startling statement made by Dr. TAYLOR, in the course of his evidence, is correct, and that in the midst of apparent prosperity and obedience to the law, a dreadful crime and vice is rife in this metropolis, the destruction of life by secret poisonings." It is an appalling reflection, but it is one from the horrible glamour of which there is no escape—with the whole grimly series of these five cruel murders perpetrated by CATHARINE WILSON since 1854 glaring irresistibly at this moment upon our recognition. In the good old days of duelling the witty Irish barrister who suggested instead a harmless display of skill with pistols, deserved well of the duellist class. Let us, said he to his challenger, chalk a figure the size of each of us on a barn door, and whichever hits the other's chalk man shall receive an apology from the one who misses. Now we do not know whether the Catholic and Presbyterian Doctors of Divinity, CULLEN and HANNA, do not equally deserve a Peace Society prize, although, such is the infirmity of human nature, what they devise for peace ends in war. The Government will not indulge us, they say, in good neighbourly breaking of each others' heads to the honour of our respective faiths, so, let us show our strength in another way. Let us have monster meetings—processions—gatherings—and whoever gets up the biggest meeting and makes the best show, let his faith be the infallible one. Now really this is a very creditable proposal. Why should not numbers be the test of orthodoxy ? Why cannot we accept the vote of the majority, as we do in other matters and have done with it ? Only carry out the CULLEN-HANNA principle, and we really might get rid of ail our sects in a little time. What a blessed peace it would be, too, for us all, if once we could be as easy in religion as in politics, and give in to the majority. " Contending sects would lose their power or cease, An e'en the dipped and sprinkled live in peace." But poor Dr. HANNA has certainly a grievance. If our duellist above-mentioned, being required, through his bad marksmanship, to make the apology, ran up to his rival and gave him the butt-end of his discharged pistol, this would certainly not be fair-play. Now, says Dr. HANNA, this is the way with the Cullenites. They had their meeting in Dublin. They went to the verge of the law, and even beyond the law, by displaying party symbols and banners, Lord CARLISLE, well meaning but weak-acting man, did not put all this down; or, as ABE LINCOLN'S friends say, " put his foot down on it." Yet we exemplary Protestants in Dublin made no disturbance. Dr. CULLEN had his demon• stration to his heart's content. This, says Dr. HANNA, was our grievance. We have sad com plaints to make about the castle patronage — it goes out of all proportion, to incompetent Catholics—we could however forgive even that. We are industrious and shall not starve, although we miss our proportion of the political loaves and fishes—but for a grand public meeting of Catholics to be tolerated—a meeting designed merely to glo rify Popery by a quiet display of physical force —no, that cannot be brooked. If an amiable Lord Lieu tenant will not " put his foot down" he must see, and the Catholics must see, that Protestants can match them ; so Dr. HANNA blows his trumpet on Mx. "B-plirnalSS. at Belfast, and calls on all good Pro testants from the four corners of Ulster to "gather themselves together to the help of the LORD against the POPE.." Now it really was a little too bad of the Catholics to waylay and maul the quiet Pro testants who had assembled only for a great " palaver" in the Botanic Gardens of the town. Talk could do no harm. And as the Catholics had their show unmolested in Dublin, it was too bad of them to meddle with the Protestant show at Belfast. We cannot excuse the naughty Paddies, whose priests had doubtless in structed them, with an appropriate movement of the eyelids, " to take care they did not disturb or molest any Protestants." Yet we must own, as good Protestants, we cannot let off Dr. HANNA and Co. so easily. We cannot, if we are to suppose that Irish Catholics judge of English Protestants by Dr. HANNA. We would not have it thought that we here, in sober old England, could be provoked to a demonstration of physical religious strength. We have heard a good deal lately of "Muscular Christianity," but it is not just the muscularity of crowds which finds such favour with us. May we beg all in Ireland whom it may concern to take notice, that religious ochlocracy is viewed with dis gust by respectable men of all creeds. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town on Saturday from visiting the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Gedling Lodge, Notts. Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar, who have been staying during the week with the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Gedling Lodge, Nottinghamshire, returned to town on Saturday. The Earl of Warwick left his house in the Stable yard, St James's, on Saturday, for Warwick Castle. The earl and countess leave in a few days for the Earl of Wemyss's seat in Scotland. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are receiv ing a succession of visitors at their seat, Broadlands, Hants. Viscountess Jocelyn and family are expected at Cambridge House today from a tour on the Continent. The Earl of Chesterfield has left Gedling Lodge, Notts, for Newmarket. The Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry has arrived in town from the Queen's Hotel, Upper Nom,- The Earl and Countess of Lincoln 1;P -at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, —ye arrived, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. grom Clumber Park, FALL FROM A -r. night Mr. M- AtAILIVAY-BRIDGE.—On Monday ford-h-• _...edollald, son of the stationmaster at Stara high engine, viaduct whichthe s t e c,. , ....Age, It.t the North-Eastern, met with a se r io us mis clap. lie had occasion to speak with th e d r i ver o f an p crosses ews the which p he e rw alightedent. Itw when being d o n dark to the yorekniejuries, 14 . 14 acIdonald missed the bridge AO. It is said the bridge was not protected at "el)th o f 40 4 . and fall into the valley, a WARDS.--tudi:P the p l ace. Act any of the very sever . Mr. Macdonald, as may be supposed, received internally and otherwise, and was sent divided into wards when found to contafionr the DIVISION OF Hospital the same night. METROPOLITAN PARISHES INTO r the new Metropolis Local Management parishes within the metropolis can now be on the application b of Works, or of not less th purpose of electing vestrymen y the e ore than 2,000 rated householders, vestry to the Metropolitan Board obtai the sion is to be submitted to the 500 householders. The divi- Secretary of State, and he may order the same to vestry of the interests of the :tea' fair representation in the The Emperor Alexander 11, has published a u kase, by which he in terdicts the carrying of the doctri nes of confiscati on issued into executi o n since 1532. This ukase, without repairing the Poles the preceding reign, checks the effects of the iniquities of confiscation in cases where the extreme measure has not been yet applied. Private letters from Russia state that the eman cipation scheme will no w p roceed without f urther hind rance " as the peasants find that they cannot have the land for nothing, and that applications for further conc ess i ons will be useless." One nobleman writes that he is happ y at no longer possessing a single serf, and that he has com menced letting his land out in farms as in this country. He says, moreover, that his income will not be curtailed for more than a year or two. The opera season in Dublin commences ou Tues day, the 7th of October, under an arrangement with Mr. \lapleson, of Her Majesty's Theatre. The company is a good one ; it includes Mdlle. Titiens, Madame Lemaire, Signors Giuglini, Badiali, Herr Formes, &c. The operas announced are " Il Travatore," " Lucia di Lammermoor," " Puritani," &G. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENIN'i, SEPTEMBER 30, 1862. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. SATANELLA. Of all the characteristic products of the first French Revolution, not one was more illustrative of its vigour and audacity, than the story of " Le Diable Amoreux," by Jean Paul Cazotte, which enjoys the distinction of having originated the " Supernatural" School of Fiction, that became so popular in Germany at the hands of Fouque and Novalis. The novel conception of the " Devil in Love," had a fantastic force about it which of itself was quite suffi cient for the volcanic taste of the day ; but it had the advantage, in addition, of consider able skill and humour in its treatment, which ex it acquired in other countries. eof this story, we must remem ber,the popularity was not the Evil One himself, but a demon who at his bidding assumed a lovely female form, in order, with other attractions, to ensnare a young Italian cabalist ; but who was punished by being caught in the very trap she had prepared, and made to love and save the victim it was her business to destroy. This idea, whch has been often repeated, was highly original and poetic, and only required to be divested of a little of the excess of its present ment to have adapted it especially to the vivid field enough, however, it has never of the drama. Oddly attracted the French dramatists themselves, though they are always on the hunt to discover new and good material, and only found its way to their stage in the emasculated form of a grand ballet, which was reproduced at Drury-lane some twenty years ago when under the title of the " Devil in Love," it was brought forward by Mr. Bunn, in order to enchant us with the wonderful pantomime of " Pauline Leroux." When, at length, Mr. Balfe resolved to adapt the subject for an opera, his librettists unfor tunately went to the ballet for their materials in stead of to the book. By so doing, they not only lost nearly all the poetic notion of the story, which would have supplied very supe rior opportunities for music, but they hampered themselves, in addition, with a train of disjointed incidents, which, however well adapted to introduce a variety of dances, was directly op posed to the essential unity and growth of a dramatic interest. Again, in the book there is but one heroine, whilst in the opera there are three—a further division of the interest, which sadly weakens its impression; whilst in the very scene of the original—its magnificent opening in the Bay of Naples, with its highly poetic incan tation amidst the ruins of Baize (here discarded for the worn-out notion of a devil's chamber, and a sliding picture), presented resources that were just as superior for the musician as the painter. Mr. Balfe's success, therefore, in treating this sub ject, must be measured by his difficulties, and the very meagre opportunities that were placed within his reach. Adequately dramatised, we believe that the " Diable Amoureux" would have become the medium of one of the most signal and enduring of his achievements. As it is, it contains music which few of his contemporaries could have written, and which, whether on the score of its skill or melody, must always make the work accceptable. Of its performance last evening we are only able to speck in measured terms. Produced chiefly with the view of presenting Miss Sara Dobson and Mr. Perren in the leading characters, it subjected both of them to the kind of trial which they are most unable to sustain. Both the Count and Satanella require the highest, dramatic expression, whether to develops the force of the music or to sup port the interest of the story. And we need not say this is precisely the quality in which the new and young singers are deficient. It would be very difficult, we fancy, to find even experienced lyric artists who would impart to the one Mr. Har rison's spirit or to the other Miss Pyne's emotion, and the test therefore must be proportionately fatal to any substitutes who are in their noviciate. Miss Dobson's best successes were in the lovely ballad, " Let not the world disdaining," which she sung with a grace and tenderness which were highly meritori ous, and her two songs in the third act, the buoyant air, " Sultana Znlema" (taken bodily, we mast remind our readers, from one of the Irish melodies) and the sparkling rondo at the close, which she delivered with considerable spirit. Her singing was also so praiseworthy in the scene with Ahrimanes, that it is obvious this young lady is already beginning to strengthen. Mr. George Perren was most successful in the buoyant effu sion, " The glorious vintage of champagne," in which he won a deserved encore, and in " An angel form, in dreams beheld," in the refrain of which he was equally and justly complimented. Miss Thirlwall was an agreeable Leila ; Mr. Rouse, a comic Hortensius ; Mr. Corti, a vigorous Pirate ; and Mr. St. Albyn, an excellent rustic lover, sing ing his one song, which was encored, " Oh, would she but name the day," with great humour and ani mation. The best feature of the performance was unquestionably Mr. Weiss, who resumed, on this occasion, his original character of Ahrimanes, and alike by his commanding bearing, and noble use of his noble voice, restored that personage to the level of its original importance. His entire scene with Satanella was a mingled flow of force and dignity. Of the merits of the band and chorus, or of Mr. Mellon, on this occasion, we can only use our old expressions. The house was toler ably attended, not withstanding the disastrous night. HER MAJESTY'S THEA7RE. CHEAP NIGHTS. Mr. Mapleson reopened this house last evening, for a series of four cheap performances, in order to catch a further portion of the still flowing tide to the Exhibition. The first of the series was " The Trovatore," in which Madame Titiens and Signor Giuglini sustained their usual characters, the only novelty being the appearance of Signor Badiali in the Count di Luna—an artist whose excellent voice, superior dramatic feeling, and thorough musical accomplishment, made him so prominent a member of the Italian Opera at Drury Lane. We have so often discussed the merits of these singers we can have no occasion to renew our praises, so content ourselves by saying— that they never exerted thennsel-ies with more suc cess—to a house which, despite the wet was very well attended cver.ing is given " Marta," in which Herr _,,rmes appears as Plunkett—his first assumption, we believe, of that character in London. On Thursday, " Lucia de Lammermoor" will be performed, and on Saturday one of the above operas will be repeated. HAYMA.RKEI THEATRE. A lively farce, entitled "Duck Hunting," from the practised pen of Mr. Stirling Coyne, was pro duced at this theatre last evening, and was quite successful. Its fun turns upon some complications arising out of the secret marriage of a young bar rister living in chambers, and the search after a runaway husband by a deserted wife. Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Hose, Mr. Compton, Mrs. and Miss Hill sustain the principal parts. Various alterations have takeh place in the cost of " The American Cousin." Florence Trenchard, made so interesting by the performance of Mrs. C. Young, being given to Miss Lucy Rushton, from the Theatre Royal, Manchester; Mrs. E. Fitzwil liam sustaining Mary Meredith, a part formerly filled by Miss M. Oliver; and Mr. M'lntyre, from Dublin, filling the place of Mr. Villiers as Lieutenant Vernon. Miss Rushton has a good figure and a pleasing voice, and although she had much to contend with in the recollection of Mrs. Young in the same part, she came out of the ordeal very satisfactorily. Miss E. Romer also made her first appearance last night, and from the applause with which she was received she will doubtless be come a valuable addition to the company. arr To th e ProvinciP.l Council of Genoa the following state ment of the commercial movement of the port of Genoa _ ivals and has 8,99 been p resented :—lu 1861 the arr i va l s were, Fi; the departures altogether, 1 7, 8 96; with a tonnage of 1 , 9 75,710, th e crew numbering 202,517. There was for 1861 an e Icess of 450 000 tons over the year 1860. 7, 242 of the vessels—that is, , more than one-half —sailed under the national fla g . Of these vessels 473 carried coals, 372 marble, 396 g ra i n, and 218 timber. The passengers enter ing the port were 71,199; leaving post, 68,330; altogether, n 9,529 persons. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN AMERICA. (Per Norwegian, via Quebec and Londonderry.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 20 (Morning). Later accounts from General M'Clellan's Head quarters state that Tuesday last was chiefly passed in deploying the forces and gaining positions, but on Wednesday a severe battle was fought, lasting from dawn till dusk, The result of the battle was indecisive, but the superiority of position remained with the Federals ; their loss is estimated at from 6,000 to 10,000 men. Federal General Mansfield was killed, and Generals Hooker, Dureza, Sumner, Meagher, Max, Weber, Dana, Hartsuff, Richardson, Sedgwick, French, Ricketts, and .Rodman were wounded. The loss of Federal Generals and field-officers is said to be so large as to be unaccount Little beyond skirmishing occurred on Thursday. General M'Clellan officially reports, on Friday morning, that the enemy abandoned his position on Thursday night, leaving dead and wounded on the field, and says : " I do not know if the enemy is falling back to an interior position, or crossing the river. We may safely claim the victory for ours." In a later despatch he reports that General Pleasanton is driving the enemy across the river, and says :—" Our victory was complete. The enemy is driven back into Virginia. Maryland and Penn sylvania are now safe." The newspaper accounts state that the Confe derates commenced crossing the Potomac, at Shell herdstown-bridge, and two fords above and below it, early on Thursday night. During the night General M'Clellan advanced a battery and shelled the Confederates from the sur rounding heights. Early on Friday morning General Pleasanton pursued with two batteries and two regi ments of infantry, and captured some of their ammunition, and a small portion of a South Caro lina brigade. General Stonewall Jackson conducted the Confe derate retreat into Virginia, and the whole Confede rate army appears to have crossed the Potomac with but slight loss of men, waggons, and artillery. The Confederates retreated in the direction of Winchester. A cousiderable Federal force, under Generals Siegel and Heintzelmann, is on the Virginia side of the Potomac, and speculation is rife whether this force will interfere with the Confederate retre, t. It is not decidedly known whether the Federals or the Confederates occupy Harper's Ferry, but it is rumoured that General Burnside yesterday crossed into Virginia, via Harper's Ferry, and was moving against the Confederates. _ General M'Clellan's army crossed Antistem Creek, and is massed between that position and the Potomac, opposite Shepherdstown. It was sup posed M'Clellan would cross the Potomac. The capture of the Confederate General Long street is not confirmed. The Federal garrison at Mumfordsville, Ken tucky, numbering 4,000 to 5,000, with 10 pieces of artillery, surrendered on the 17th to the Confe derate General Bragg, whose forces numbered 30,000. The reported investment of Charleston is officially denied. The Federal gunboats have destroyed Prentice, Mississippi. The Confederates are concentrating at Goldsbo rough, with the intention of attacking Newborn, k% North Carolina. Large bodies of Federal recruits continue to leave for Washington. A large steamer, supposed to be the Ovieto, ran the blockade of Mobile. (By Telegraph to Father Point.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 20 (Evening). General Burnside occupied Harper's Ferry on Tuesday last, driving the Confederates out, and pursuing them to Martinsburg, He afterwards crossed the Potomac, and was in the engagement of Wednesday, under M'Clellan. The Confederates all succeeded in crossing the Potomac on Friday morning, saving their trans ports and all their wounded, except 300. The Confederates are still visible in force on the Potomac shore, opposite M'Clellan's position, and have posted artillery to prevent the Federals from crossing. The Federals estimate the Confederate loss at 18,000 to 20,000 men. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold, 173 premium. Exchange dull. Bankers' bills, 1281, 129 i. Stocks large speculative sales. New York Cen trals, 963; Illinois, 66; Erie, 421. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 531. Flour heavy, sc. lower. Wheat dull, at a decline of lc. Corn heavy. Provisions steady. Coffee and sugar good inquiry. Molasses very firm. (Latest by 'Telegraph to Cape Race.) NEW YORK., SEPT. 22 (EVENING). The Confederates have retired from the bank of the Potomac opposite M'Clellan, and have retreated in the direction of Winchester. The Federals are crossing the Potomac at Shep herdstown and William's Point. The reported occupation of Harper's Ferry by General Burnside was incorrect. The Confederates evacuated Harper's Ferry on Friday last, after destroying all the Government stores and the pontoon bridge, and partly destroy ing the bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Federals now occupy Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights. Gene. Siegel and Heintzelmann remain for the defence of Washington. Commander Preble has been dismissed the United States service for permitting the steamer Ovieto to enter Mobile. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The steamers Kangaroo and Hammcnia, which sailed for Europe on Saturday last, took nearly 50,000 dols. in specie. The Australasia, sailing on the 24th inst., is also expected to take 50,000 dols. Money easy. Gold 178 premium. Exchange steady. Bankers' bills, 129. Stocks and cotton steady. THE RIVER PLATE. (PER TYNE, via LISBON. MONTEVIDEO, AUG. 28. Business inactive. Exchange 401 40. Wet salted hides, 62; ox, 55; dry hides (Ame rican), 541 --2 ; German, 59 ; Stock, 70,000. The Saladeiros do not work- Wool, no stock. Tallow, 20. WEIMAIt, SEPT. 29 (Evening). The assembly of delegates from the German States has unanimously voted the following resolution in reference to the question of the Zollverein :-- " The transformation of Germany from a Con federation of States into one Federal State is, besides being a political necessity, the greatest want of Germany, as far as her commercial in terests are concerned. Until this transformation is effected, the dissolution of the Zollverein, which is indispensable to the unity of Germany, must be avoided. On the renewing of the Zollverein an improvement in its constitution is imperative." The session of the Assembly was then closed. GERMANY. g r giMAR, SEPT. 28, Evening. The sitting of the Assembly of popular represen tatives of the German States was continued this afternoon. Herren Benningsen, Fries, Holder, Hoverb.?ck, Metz, and Schulle, submitted a proposition of a conciliatory character, according to which the unity of Germany on the basis of the constitution voted by the Frankfort Assembly in 1849, is to be con sidered a political necessity, and the German par liament composed of members nominated by popu lar vote. In reference to the entry of the German provinces of Austria into the new Confederation, the motion submitted by these gentlemen agreed with the pro position of the committee, adjourning the discussion of this question to a later period. The same delegates further moved that the ques tion of the formation of a central executive power could be best regulated by a German parliament. Herr Probst spoke against, and Herr Schulze in favour of, these propositions, which were adopted by the Assembly, four members only dissenting. The Prussian members of the Assembly will return to-night to Berlin. WEIMAR, SEPT. 29. To-day in the Assembly of the popular repre sentatives of the German States a resolution was adopted expressing the acknowledgments of the Assembly to the Prussian Lower House for its conduct with respect to the military budget, and stating such conduct to be of the greatest im portance for the development of the constitutional life of Germany. The resolution was passed with but one dissen tient voice. The project for the organisation of the Assembly was also adopted. The days on which the Assembly is to meet w ere fixed. The sitting of the committees of the Assembly will be held at Frankfort, by the special desire of the Prussian representatives. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, SEPT. 29. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to day Count von Bismark-Schonhausen read the following communication from Government : " The Chamber having rejected the charges for reorganising the army included by Government in the Budget for 1862, the Government must presume that the house would adopt a similar course with regard to the new items in the Budget for 1863. The government, on its part, maintaining the views already expressed by its organs upon the occasion of the discussion of the budget of 1862, the results of a present debate upon the budget of 1863 would not only be unfavourable to the chances of any fur ther settlement of the question, but would, on the contrary, greatly enhance its difficulties. Looking at the spirit of the discussions which have hitherto taken place, it seems impossible to arrive at an understanding without the introduction of a fresh budget. " On the proposition of the Ministry, his Ma jesty has therefore authorised me to withdraw the budget for 1863. By this act, however, the prin ciple of the budget being early submitted to the house is not conceded. But the government is of opinion that its present duty is not to raise still higher the obstacles to an understanding. "Next session we shall lay before the house the budget fur 1863, with a bill supporting as a vital condition the reorganisation of the army, and we shall at the same time submit to the Chamber the budget for 1864." Herr von Grabow, the President of the Chamber, then read the royal authorisation to withdraw the budget for 1863. Herr Fries proposed to refer the declaration of the Government to the committee upon the budget, with the request for an early report. The sitting of the committee commenced at 11 a.m. Counts von Bismark-Schonhausen and von Roon were present. In reply to the question whether a new session would be, held in the course of the year, Count von Bismark-Schonhau•en stated that do decision had been` yet come to by the 'Government. It regarded the present period , as a species of armistice, during which an attempt might be made to terminate the conflict. It was possible that the budget might be laid before the Chamber in the course of the year, but its settlement, owing to the possible alterations necessary in the military votes for 1863, until the Ist November, was hardly to be expected. Count von Roon stated that the interval from the middle of October, when the session would probably close, until November was insufficient for the consideration of the budget and the presenta tion of the bill based thereon. Count von Bismark Schonhansen repeated that government, in withdrawing the budget for 1863, had only in view the object of a pacific understand ing with the Chamber. The next sitting of the committee will take place to-morrow evening. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 29.—There has been again a rather large amount of business transacted. Threes, for the Account, opened at 79fr. 25c., and after going up to 70f. 40c., receded to 70f. 10c., and have since rallied to 70f. 25c., at which they are now. Railway Shares are generally firm. The market closed as follows :- 4t per Cents. 97 45 Do, end month 97 75 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 30 New 3 per Cents Bank Shares 3200 Credit oncier 1245 Piedmentesc Fives, 71 50 Italian Loan 7l 75 Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes 5l 25 Home Debt pei Do. end mouth.... Credit MoNlier.... 1060 Do. end monti".:• • •.1057 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1065 .. 1067 50 Northern New ditto . • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1171 25 .. 1175 Geneva 370 372 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon-hard .. 617 50 .. 620 North of Spain Saragossa , 615 • • 615 Ditto to Barcelona 340 • • 342 50 OPENING OF A NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN WHITECHAPEL.—YeStaItaI the new Roman Catholic Church of St. Boniface, situate ill Union-street, White chapel, was opened in accordance with the solemn forms in cidental to such a service in the Roman Catholic religion. The building in question was originally used as a theatre and circus. It was then converted by Lady Huntingdon into a chapel of her ladyship's connexion, and was often the scene of the labours of the celebrated Whitfield. Zion Chapel, as it was then called, afterwards lapsed into the hands of the independents, and its ministry was carried on for some years by a converted Jew. From some cause or other the building was recently brought to the hammer, when it was successfully bid for by the clergyman having charge of the German Mission in London, and hence the ceremony of yesterday. It appears that in London, and chiefly in the locality in which the church is placed, there are from 20,000 to 30,000 German Catholics. The new church is circular in form, and is capable of holding from 2,000 to 3,000 persons. It has been newly painted and tastefully and appropriately decorated. At the services yesterday there were present the Bishop of Munster, Car . dinal Wiseman, Dr. Ullathorne, Dr. Morris, Dr, Manning, and a large number of canons and priests and members of monastic orders. - - EXTRAORDINARY REVIVAL MEETING.—During the last week intimation was made througholt the parish of Kirriemuir that a meeting would be held at a certain farm town, on the afternoon of Sabbath last, at which addresses would be delivered by some parties from Kirriemuir. At the time and place appointed , a co ns id era bl e number met a nd waited long and anxiously for the promised speakers. At last, when their patience was nearly exhausted, and t o appearance of them, a worthy son of Crispin drew a news paper from his pocket, and treated the company to an ac count of the trial of Mrs. 1 1 1`Lachlan at Glasgow. At the same tine, as the midges were rather troublesome, some of the =dime lighted their outtien.—Aortle JIMA 400, MAZZINI. The following letter was written by Mazzini to Mr. John M'Adam, of Glasgow. It is dated about a week before the affair of Aspromonte : London, August 22. Dear Friend,—lt is perfectly true, in spite of the calumnies of the Times, that for eighteen months I have been endeavouring to persuade Garibaldi that we ought to direct all our efforts towards Venice. Now, however, the die is cast. The absurd opposi tion of the Government to every project concerning Venice, the insulting obstinacy of Louis Napoleon, and the instincts of the Italian people, have decided the question, and all discussion of the matter would be out of place. A whole people has repeated the worzt of order, "Rome;" we ought to obey, and as for me, I shall help the movement according to my power. And yet, that the flower of our youth should have to fling themselves into the terrible eventualities of war, to conquer that which by right is our own, that a foreign monarch should condemn thousands to death, because he is resolved to preserve that which is not his, is a shame for Europe. That France, Voltairean France, and a man who has no faith except in force, should be able to murder and assassinate in the name of that . . . this is called papacy, which is nothing else than adding hypocrisy to guilt and disgust to horror. Great Britain ought now or never to speak clearly her opinion, and come 'forth morally and materially in. aid of right. To keep Rome against the express will of the King, the ParliLment, all the successive Cabinets, and of a whole population, which for two years have asked, as if it were a gift, for their own capital of the foreigner, is really acting as a con queror. And ought such an enormity to be permitted to France—and only to France in Europe—to despotic France, without at least a vigorous protest from those who profess to believe in right, in liberty, and in non-intervention ? It is a question which con cerns you all.—l am, 8.7 c., MAZZINI. THE ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE AT WOKING. Yesterday Mr. B. Webster, the master, deputy master, wardens, and governors of this institution attended at the building of the Royal Dramatic College, at Woking, for the purpose of formally inducting into their future habitations the annul!. tants chosen at the last election. The building consists of a long range of edifices, forming a large hall in the centre of the building, with five houses on each side, each house capable of accommodating two inmates with a suit of apart ments each. The apartments consist of abed-room, sitting-room, kitchen, and other offices complete, and the whole building is well drained and fur nished with a plentiful supply of fresh water. It is intended that an additional house shall be built at each end for the accommodation of four more recipients of the bounty of the governors, and that the hall shall be extended into the back gar.. den, so that that which is now the length will be come the width of the hall, and then many pic tures of value will be hung there. The persons admitted were Mrs. Shuter, Mrs. Christian, and Mrs. Rivers, and the males were Mr. Statelier, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Macarthy, and Mr. Henry Bedford. After the ceremony of installing these persona into their " locations," the company retired to a tent in the back garden, where a handsome de jeuner was provided for the company. Ample justice having been done to the repast, Mr. WEBSTER, the chairman, drew thke attention of the meeting to the fact that her Majesty had been pleased to subscribe £lOO tomards the building fund, and he had no doubt but that that amount would be repeated. (Hear, hear.) Ee pro posed " The Health of the Queen," amid tremen dous cheering. The toast was drunk with the usual enthusiasm, her Majesty having taken a most lively interest in their proceedings. Mr. ROBT. BELL felt quite sure that the present generation had done that for the benefit of posterity which would perpetuate their names. He then went into a history of the rise and progress of the stage, and said that if their fathers could rise from their graves they would not credit what their children had done to promote the interests of their body. (Hear.) As one of the council he could only say that those ladies and gentlemen who had been elected on the funds of the college were satisfied. with the provision that had been made for them ; and for the council he could say that the greatest coesideration on their part had been exercised for the convenience and comfort of the inmates, and that nothing had been neglected that would contri bute to the happiness and comfort of those who sought their shelter and protection. They were only now in their infancy, but having done what they had done, and having attained the position which they then held, the public would come for ward and assist them. (Cheers.) On the part of the council he might say that Mr. Webster had played many parts from one in the " Taming of the Shrew" down to Mr. Penholder in " One Touch of Nature," but no part had been played with such success as that he had exhibited in reference to. the Royal Dramatic College. (Loud cheers.) He then proposed "Prosperity to the Royal Dramatic Col lege," which was drank amidst great cheering. The Chairman then said he was about to address his brothers and sisters on the subject of the college. It had been to them like the falling of manna in the Wilderness from those who had received pleasure and enjoyment from them, and who now repaid it with interest. They had heretofore assisted them in the histrionic art, and they now came forward still more with open hand and heart to aid the coun cil in the benevolent undertaking they were that day inaugurating. Their friends could not look upon that work -without feeling that they had done great good, and they ought to feel proud that they" had had a hand in doing it. (Cheers.) No country was so rich as this in institutions of this kind, and they stood out in bold relief in her history, and seemed to say to other nations of the earth " Go thou and. do likewise." He was proud to say to those ladies and gentlemen who had been elected, " Come here and partake of that bounty which has been given with an open hand and a great heart." (Cheers.) To that home he conducted them that day ; and. how much of kindness, of friendship, and of love - was expressed in that simple word " home !" The council had done everything in making arrange ments for their comfort and convenience, and they had made arrangements by which the pensioners could go to London and back for a single fare. They had also gone somewhat beyond the charter in admitting the husbands of the females, and the wives of the males who were elected to reside in the houses with the partners of their lives ; but in doing so the council covsoled themselves with the feeling that if they had done a little wrong- they had done a great right. (Loud and prolonged daeering.) He then stated that every male pensioner Nebo ell' tared the institution had his wife with him, and two of the ladies had their husbands with tht'au• (Renewed cheering.) _ . Mr. CRES WICK proposed " Health and Happiness to the Subscrjnrs," which was cordially re-' sponded to. Mr. GERWOOD, in returning thanks, stated that they had received from Mr. Buckstone £250 to wards the building of one of the end houses_ Mr. Graves, he must state, had very generously given some valuable engravings for the decoration of the rooms. Several other toasts were proposed, and responded to with great cordiality, among them being one to the Necropolis Woking Cemetery Company for the land tney had given them, and another to gr. Churchill, the able secretary to that company, for the very great assistance he had rendered thete during their opera.tions. The convi'viality of the meeting was prolonged to a late hour. An interesting experiment was mule on ThurS' day last on the Seine, opposite to the Palace of St. Cloud. A bridge was thrown across the river, in its widest part' within the short space of 20 minutes. This operation, which was formerly considered to be one of the most diffi cult in the presence of an enemy, is now accomplished ' , vi al comparative facility. The bridge thrown ;,over the Selo° within so slam t a time onThursday was sufficiently strong to permit infautrY) and artillery to cross the riTer•