The Sun. — London, England, 1862-06-28 00:00:00

SEPARATION tYF 'CHURCH & STATE-MART' ETRE JUSTICE Pays—No " Pensions, Queen's nor stinisters' money," On W. Hackett, of Corby-la-time R, N.ampton 1591, gib bet'd in Cheapside by Q. Erizajesu 'in carto-cceli's /owfunday zenith to Ale Cor Ay g 2' 30" }declin. of Pole *.. fair S.Calvin lat. its 'Nonconformist Anderson stangrider of 9 June. So 20 yrs ' Peter-chained Prometheus' of '42 Ca"rby Indns3ty, as Antichrist by the (Will death-Crt.) law, in God, without Theatricum Ecclesiasticum minse'ry by French-british- Filibust'rs, for Mexi-letter-of-Marque war-issue. Conven tion of Oct. 31, 1861, not ratified within 15 days time. JAPAN'S EMPIRE—Its Nilson Quebec - mis sion of Pekin's river -s fork o i —as England's Privy-council on Carib's-(St Torna & St. John's Porto Rico by whzte,flag with red ball, as Foretop'd over by Dutch text-aanebrog order)-Virgin-tle's law for' sea lands and salt-shores re sumption lifetruae Aug. 1828, as Afric Egypt's Redsflag white/, r Cathay San Luci+mark—See Times, June 11. This 199-yr. Telegraph, for allies' treaty in token of trade on retrospect 284 yr to Earth a) Meridian long. Act 1841, c 39, by Art. 1-10, under 'German-text Hollandais'-board for E. Ind. Co's yellow Copper-crown revision every 14 yrs, signed 26-August, 1858, by Russian Count Ignatief in 1859, under Pekin's Xun-Tien- (' sin Treaty—in Al-Cores's Vi and 'Ki demands), Obedience to the heaven's Zenith ++ sol put-meter sphere fate 'Z o verhead' -spiral earth-fist. Thus distinct frO the 7 plaueterry Sun's declin. N. and s. for Scythic arc 40' Dead-Crt, 1580 in Ton-Quin's Le Chua, on Edw. m's Hanza 1335 Duchy-chancery Crt s hif of Macao's feudalle Cabotage as England ' itself of the isles, 50' pied-de-Rol,' [against the Tartar-british Papuagugis hidslave trade, on 7th Pii's motu 12 May 1814-16, Thibetiesuit-reset petition by Paul° Mas- Karin & other] on Hobart-Castle-adys of Java molucco. Not of my Danifh pueri-Jan. 14-May 9 - set on Coorg-Ne- paul seniory 3ty. against nullified (North of St. Cross-25= Bentinck, Bertit-nobart Foster... Stuarts?) de Newcemen by Canning's native E. Ind. trust '25 &'62-evictions, thro' Executor's in-and-in marriage), by 7•Hen• B's Fiscal-privy Council will Act, only three being now left, on Chelten-ham let'r Sir T. Chamberlayne's I' Brussels Governor 1553-60, to its Wales plume mark by Car. 1., of Diidstone King's- Barton Hundred, on Hick's-life Campden'd in Christ Coll., Oxford, for barony of Churchdown-14 J. I.- okifts-gate register.—See Lodge's Illus. Hist., v. i. p. 210-17. You'll Belgrade the old Tears • cone Ches-i-peak montee Ru'civic limit-wall of China, as Jezz's horizon of London, 40a N., on H. B's Troy 1526-81 Re;cite of Exchequer, and take out the ' Yedo copy of standard Pigmeter weights' for exemplification, of red moon on white sqr., in red flag of the Menam.cab' empire of Ar 6 isles, Borne on Eliz.'s Troy 88 in Jm. I'a sal-4 letter on Sicily's .s font in sky Q' link 'twist Man and God. its still-Laird 'fferpentine : : .. • fly audits.' " Arc ambulare per orbi grit-annos, •• (Sept. 29) Übi mors sit, in May" Scythian hortOs • (Mar. 24 ) Tell the free TAIL-men—This results from my Lincoln's inn (de Lacy Clair, in Butler-Wogan, Stoney's so Fleming), Macao charge, in Ric. Ifs Wilton Grey line of Holland (on the Holy alliance abolition, of Christ t kings), 29th August, 1825 by 11 G. ra c 55, 1772.' 74—based on 14 G. in.. c 83, and the MINT-unit in 4-6 W. 4, c. 63, as th' Earth's TROY, re stored by 1824, G. iv. c. 71 —suspended one year to kill off its life and death 1815 justice-men for 6 Jan. '26 Romish motu—so cause, of 12 Leo's Hanza white Mitre being set on Criminal law exchequer deeds (by reason yr-1246 of cost for ' Abbot's mitre in precedent for 1604's canon-'5B for a parish Gown' from the Tuthill-fair Brompton rates for the two warden daysman-investiture), over which,—as the Jesu-pace have no right to touch the fiscal meters—if not removed, I will sign for the people's rights without work house crop'ng by Rug-tartar-ctians in China's Scot-Imp. shaved mark of Macartney's 1793 fword.CAß, & 6-Harness Act, on Brant adoptsercy, so Moravian Chelsea-act to Bri tish misrule by U.S. i-Cent papal confusion, lately seen in Pekin summer palace—to out 'Norton'-Simcoe-ism, by the Cathey'lic Abjuration Act, for 12 Cal. April, Calvin Swiff Co's., of 1557 Brazil Guespe—by 1791-3 G. m., c 44, made effective for Pombal and Manilla missions in 18 25 . " By ' JAN Company' raised above its buff compeers, On shag-baech'y title,—Master of the bears." rir The suspended act 1824-25 on C' g 'A., was reset by 'A clause' in '35-7, and I, its Antichrist State!swall martyr to 1843, for spirit-level inter-'-national oathmg to all office, without Sect-creed ask, by a .—. Staff-inset poy'ze right on the 6/3olitos Thumb-ball inch ring of Aristolta/is. Thus on water trespass,' YEH's ask of Lisbon's Macao Goa's governor in 1857—(50 to Rome's dead-eye Papus) who was England's 1594 Stil -laird of N. Guinea 1713 and 1826- -River-King ‘Gerefa Judge Conservator' on Brazil-marshal Beresford's Eaton rouge submission to Admiral Hamond's flag-lieut. Aokerley as Sir C. Stuart, for facing in Manilla's Kurtite Pollicis Court—the Redmans Jeeskin'dTycoon, by Gaspe's lases at Q. An's Bnty offi., W.minster, 1841 act. Your Philipii ll.'s At-kin MISSION was to 9- Ga s: coyn the 3-ty of A.D. 1667 , wit h An g l " nutch executive of Holland, as of Leicester's creation 1585, so Cromwell & Louis ail , ., t 55, yes'd by Parliament -16 Car. ses-Graft-ongen ne t '72 for PhilliPine-ilea 6 & 6 native jury -1 764-Calvin-scholastic of Red indians by Act of 1832 for America's se Behring land '3B Rug Troyjan-wt. guarantee Dutchloan Obtend °'r New foundland-1820 as Crown colony Antipodean to N. Zealand, Siam, and its Ceylon trop'arctic ifword de x pendencies, bar ing the Belgjesu restatue'd i. Fedi.' IT. at Rio Jan. '62. You'll now see into the May 14 Boeing-Bruce visit (lead ing ty Labuan Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON treaty) of my state-set—and afterwards to Northumberland-house to bow before the Supreme Indian IMP. portrait of Joseph Brant, (SagOmothean Stamp act Chef of 1774-'93 of British Chinese Afric'd America), my uncle & Freeman predeces sor to my now Siderial-crown, by Income-tax Basquet'd as P. Nwl'warr, Chief, one of our race under '3l's ' ligne tiree for Washington § Texas—extradition act, 1843—its alien's having no. French white' flag for their Co-chin Le Bua- Annam assumption vers Colbertes l'annee 1821 of ' 1557 Calvin Co's foist on my Meximicmac Brazil-Canton sponsor ship '25, with Ind. lady, as Prince Consorted for law—so all s gifts—not being Y'r Queen's, but my Ind. ally's ! BY rEraganza tax, Ye are the up-out'd 1582 Deyro-sums. low Sinto Gregory red-letter Papists, severed from state m-kubc'ship-coroner t so, not of the peoples 'mats-maf y-ftr polo Zenith Court, of elect Tycone over the provincial Dal mi-6,and district Sio-mi-O. If so ? Rip' or Ratify by meter oath as East-Searchmen ' on the Nipon water flag limit of Port Gaspe Basin, by high contracting parties' April 7, 1862, sisfretsNßaiS l .6s Titpell. CitY_llifiA LYONS; Amer. Ind., of the other (L'atitre wise neutre) party' in Carib's 16 into costa Isle Mingan Right of search mother earth's I legi statrices an Mary Brant's son Peter 4 Know IBy2B H. 111., as Pekin's the W.minster tidal Octagon-tower flag of Parliament, when 1265 sitting at the 74-Kith Aid 'Apt-ery-house, was of Red sarsinet with Gold Oragon a... 4 Tetra -conic thus the Portugue-mason change of your national Redo, into a merchant church flag by Ma cao'd Rips (1549-941606), under an Edin. St. John's grip Dutch-Japan Lodge 3ty with China, Noviga-saeKi• signed Feb. 1663-64 by Tycoon, BORT & Does, whereby a White flag with Red-moon ball, was set as the Jetfengo emblem of your hut' d-Tail Orient-lodge Embassy in London. " Stat fatum supra totem- Qu' Decima-staat Arens Pafcitur et nigris orbem, Circum-sonat Corvus." Hence, by Bali ax Span'sh-dutch 3ty, in Mexi-Anahuaq' reciprocity to perpetuate Goa's-french Cuzvre on Art. 10, the Japan admiralty Coin-flag will be from 1862, Red pierced white square, with Red moon'—for ever, [by E. India Co's AB-sign-ian Coge Cofer' s Arab-persia Gulf, in Baron Loyola Mascarenhas, Palm'erst'ons refugee 1808-list, to '62]—Thus on 1521 CARL. V. & Leo X's-Luther 3ty, for Clement 14th Jesuit abolition—on Ackerley-Chandos succession in Labra dor 1769-72 for Surrogate ingressu and egressu will-probatee on 'Cook' Sir Philip Francis to 1818—and 'Burton-crescent statu'd Cranmer-Major Cartwright, to Ackerley's 1820-25, yet on £9O a-yr. unrelieved 37 Hen. B's lay State-Deputy for the people, as in Vespasian's meter-law—through Castle reagh's Union '93 Ireland's Water-course deposit. • Une faix qui (fit Armer la race-rouge si grande po En la loi civique), peas en 1' Hans tte . ▪ Od I'on voit que jEiniais I'ENGLAND' ne trarchande Quand it faut par la merleur donner Liberte. h ++ • • * N Atkyus- lifontagu.e C. It ACKERLEY 9 Exec. •ct ts. 2 • . 1-2 W. IV., N.. 54, • Chamberlsyne' Gie-sworn. • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842 unpaidof ▪ . • China RR§ wall circuit horizon of--s London, June 28. efa,. 1862) its Montezuma 'd red flag of E. Ind. -Rs., not in Ci Brant's power to give up IMP. China, ii,ircy in 1793. So Paris While ship' in red flag, 1189-Belgaa-vocint Ka/fateren- skiff' Het fchip saylt wel, het is ras in ssylen, item, het iseen klock-ship in failen'—by Cape NaVawa. t By 7.25 Hen. fir. the Purser discargo-rer' or steward is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act to avoid Midlsex Ty-cone Coroner's sequestration in log default on death or Offences to the Chinese—by the 1842 British Emigra triad-Jesu Soc :, (Belly-skin Vac-sign marks 's. A. C.' of Sandwich-isles, Austral, Citlfornia-Peru hut-poll-tail-tax, by Spanish sr 1 chedule goldfinders, on Art. 8, to oirr it IN head-money as K. Post Pentacoet 1640 Ind. trust), for their Sky-drama season-augury, of no Cone-sub stantial halt—in their Heli-0/impic-sham-sect—Yet with rights as free-born Englishmen—thO tail-les-' victims. (See Rim April 19, 28, May 16, & Times June 11.) THEATRE -ROYAL. DRURY•LAN.E. Dion Boucicault, Lessee. TO-NIGHT, Saturday, June 28, 186', the performances will commence at 7, with the SPITAL FIELDS WEAVER Messrs. Atkins, Robinson, Sara Stevins. After which, THE COLLEE HAWN: Messrs. Dion Boucicault, 11. Va idenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame Celeste, J ess i e sPLean, Stevi ns . To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK: Messrs. Atkins,Farrell ; Mrs. G. J ordan. Box - office open f rom 10 to 5. T ATE E-R() Y 1,, HAY MARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. at Seven, , MR. tone. Mr. THIS EVENING , . Comp ton, Miss Caroline Hill, Mrs. E. Fitswilli am • Alter which, at a quarter , to 8, will be_p erionned (16 I st time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundrcary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitiedl,a, c oNTRA. BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nene, Senor R icardo, and the Corps de dailet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. 13 ()YAL LYCEUM THEATRL . Sole Lessee and Manao-er —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 191th7Night of the 'ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. ‘N alter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melvill e , and Edmund lealconel Mrs. D. P. Bowers. Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, pictorial. poetical , an d ballet interlude, entitled KILLAItNEY, Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlo%V, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. R OYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. TINS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. hiss M. Harris. Atter which, at Eight o'clock, LOUIS XI. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. Supported by Me ssrs..J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter, Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, &c. ; 311 as Chapman, and Miss N. Chapman. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Commence at 7. No halt -price. YAL, ADELPHI.— , znle Propri.tc.r and AfflllS , Pr. Webmter._ . _ TO-vIC,HT, ICI ON PAELE FRANCAISE : Messrs. 3. L. Toole, Billino-ton, Ern . :ry ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. Bland, and Mrs. IT. Marston. To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs. C. Verner, Emery, Billington, Stephenson, a burne, C. J. Smith, homer; Miss AirneA Burdett, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Toole, co nclude with THE SHIT LING DAY . M e ssrs. J. L. P. Bedford, Emery, :Niles Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. CANTERBURYPerformerHALL. in the World, at 10 o'clock Immense success of the rt Grand Selection from Donizetti's Ope ra " DON S E tAiST (produced here conducted the fir time in country). Arranged and Principal Artistes—Miss Russell _Signor Tivoli. D u c ilonghmans. The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, ij ai and Unsworth comic T ' Tr any other (the original of the celebrated Stump s pe g r , J. . Fords, A. g.nholliz,,,,— man "). Also the following array of E. Marshall (in Paul Pry), worth, Miss Geargifla Smithson, and Joe Brown, th-e-'re-- nowned Dancer. T " OXFORD, 6, OXFORD STREET. The miraculous STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, in new and unapproachable feats. Verde's "LA TRAVIATA," "IL TROVATORE," " SIMON BOCCANEGRA," &c. ;G. Linley's "JOLLY BEGGARS ; " G.A. Macfarren's " MAY DAY. Principal Vocalists - Miss Russell, Madame Enderssolm, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comic—Miss Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those unrivalled Ethiopian Comedians, Rumsey, Newcomb, Little Bob, E ugene, an d Ens worth (the originai "or any other man"). Admission, Bd. ; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. Bd. Shortly will be produced Verdi's Great International Exhibition Cantata. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. • • • t 7-k; , L) • 'll s ' • ' THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1862. Apropos to the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and the Thames Embankment, the House of Commons was indulged last night with an amusing little interlude. As Mr. SCULLY took occasion to remark towards the close of the discussion " all the rows this session are English." And here sure enough was the latest and not by any means the least amusing. Thanks to the virtuous indignation of the noble lord the member for Huntingdonshire, it all came out about the Duke,the Committee,the limes, the "West Londoner," andthe rest of it! General scorn had been excited, as everybody almost was more or less aware during the last eight or ten days, by the knowledge (tolerably accurate from the fist) of facts that had got bruited about to the effect that in regard to this long looked-for and magnificent scheme of a grand Embankment along the northern margin of the River Thames, the Duke of BUCCLEUCH'S mansion was likely—nay, was more than likely, was tolerably certain, unless Parliament interfered resolutely and be times to prevent it—to "stop the way." It came to be known far and wide about town several days before the report of the Committee had been published, that the plans originally regarded with a favourable eye by the Committee had somehow or another at the eleventh hour hour been marred by a very serious and vexatious modification. The printed evidence of the fact of this modification did not, until several days after its announcement had flitted by, come in any shape whatever before the public. Nevertheless the reality of the fact was for the chief part of the week before its official notification in print, a matter of positive notoriety. How had it all crept out? How had the " West Londoner" come by his particularly early, and as was, from the very first, apparent, his perfectly authentic information ? Even now, th e why and the wherefore of all this remains somewhat enigmatical. Last evening, during the earlier part of the discussion provoked by the rather caustic remarks of Lord ROBERT IVIONTAGUE, we were for a while seemingly upon the verge of a disclosure. We had all but contrived to drop the pinch of salt upon the tail of the " little bird " that had evidently been flitting about Clubland. The Right Hon. the Chairman of the Thames Embankment Committee, the step-son of the Prime Minister, the Chief Commissioner of Public Works, of Woods and Forests, of Parks and Palaces, or whatever his most exact Ministerial title may chance to be had, it appeared, communicated r --'---- v rr a.. A es. - .1“,n.n" V. ricsaa.aci azsl.ura.,v yn many circles" (the definition here is Mr. COWPER'S own) : had, in point of fact, written a letter (enclos ing minutes of evidence carefully " ticked" and marked with annotations), a letter directed to a Mr. HIGGINS. Wishing to be precisely, we should rather say, perhaps, to the Mr. HIGGINS, of what Mr. ANTHONY TROLLOPE calls the The Thunderer. As it happens, this communication of a Cabinet Minister to one of the staff of The Thunderer, was written by the PREMIER'S step-son subsequently to the appearance of " A West Londoner's" letter in The limes (under date June, the 23d), and— what is still more to the purpose, for inasmuch as it extricates Mr. COWPER from the charge of being this mysterious informant " upon the sly," who has been peaching against his brother committeemen —the communication addressed by the Chairman of the Thames Embankment Committee to the re presentative of The Thunderer, never actually reached its destination, but was returned back upon the hands of the right hon. gentleman the Chairman of the Committee and the Chief Commissioner of Public Works ! How this all came about was brought to the knowledge of the House of Commons last evening. It is a ludicrous little equivoque that is exposed in its full absurdity by the noble lord the member for Huntingdonshire. It is ex plained by Mr. COWPER, and it is commented upon I•y Mr. HORSMAN. They are all together more or less angry in consequence of the proceeding. It is nothing more than a contretemps, but it is, apparently, a contretemps of a singularly irrita ting character to those who are more immediately concerned in it. Mr. COWPER addresses his letter (containing " private advices" upon the matter of the Thames Embankment) to—Mr. HIGGINS. So wholly un acquainted is the Chief Commissioner of Public Works with the number of the HIGGINSES as a clan, that he naively assures the House that in sending out his letter he was actually not even aware that there was a second Mr. HIGGINS! An intimation that was at once greeted by the house with derisive cries of " Oh !" and " Laughter." And no wonder: for supposing the Minister to have been unaware of the existence of any other Mr. HIGGINS at all, any where in the whole length and breadth of the United Kingdom, he ought surely to have known that there was still "one" other Mr. HIGGINS here ill England : to wit, the learned gentleman who Oc cupied for so b r i e f an i nterva l the pos i t i on of warming. pan to the late M.P. for Midhurst, in that learned gentleman's present capacity as one of the might at an Masters o f L unacy . M r. C OWPER y rate h ave known that there was Mr. HIGGINS, the son-in - law of the ex-Chancellor, I , 3 ri his privat e communication addressed Lord uIIELI NISFORD! A 8 ill l uck would have it for INS goes—n o t, as t A o Ir. M C r O . II , H - P I E G R G , was intended, to Mr. "HIGGINS" of the Thunderer, b ut, as was de cidedly not intended, to Mr. HIGGINS, the eon-in law of Lord CHELMSFORD. Bewildered by receiv. ing a letter of this kind addressed to himself so very unaccountably, Mr. HIGGINS No. 2 shows it to a Member of the Committee to whose proceed ings the letter has immediate reference. And thereupon the said committeeman returns it (as Mr. HIGGINS No. 2 should have done at once himself, and not thus indirectly and vicariously) to the r i g h t h on. gen tleman whose signature was appended to it. " From what has occurred," exclaims Mr. COWPER, directly he be comes aware that there is a second Mr. HIGGINS, " I do not feel the least desire to increase my acquain tance with the second Mr. HIGGINS !" Whereat the House "cheers." If, however, the Minister (as , Chairman of the Committee and writer of the letter referred to) is indignant with the total want of tact, of discretion, and of courteous reticense evidenced by this rather ill-starred relative of the late Chan cellor's, this Mr. HIGGINS who, doubtless with the best intentions in the world, is nevertheless always putting his foot in it, or trampling heavily upon somebody's corns—Lord ROBERT MONTAGUE (as himself a Member ;of the Thames Embank ment Committee) is even more indignant with Mr. COWPER, Minister of the Crown, and Chair man of the Committee, for having written this unfortunate letter at all! Having related, in the House of Commons yestesday, the whole of the circumstances of the case, as we have here given them, the noble lord remarked that " The Thames Embankment Committee, therefore, placed them selves in the hands of the House, and asked whe ther it was fair towards them, after they had spent 25 days upon a most stupid subject—La noble lord's opinion!]--in investigating very intricate questions, that they should be insulted out of the House, and have articles written against them upon information supplied by some member of the Committee." Warm words, truly, but words, the application of which to himself, Mr. COWPER at once takes occasion emphatically to repudiate. And certainly the fact that the letter that miscarried—the letter intended for Mr. HIGGINS No. 1, but inadvertently delivered to Mr. HIGGINS No. 2—the fact that that letter was written by Mr. COWPER after the 23d instant, the day upon which " A West Londoner" spoke so loudly to the public at large through the columns of the Times—is proof positive, if such were needed' corroborating this emphatic repudiation. As the affair stands altogether, the difficulty in regard to it appears to us really and truly to be, not so much to discover who has been in the wrong throughout these proceedings, as, in point of fact, who has not been in the wrong. Mr. COWPER would have done well —no doubt of it—both in his capacity as Minister of the Crown and as Chairman of the Committee, if he had r ever written any letter of the kind to any Mr. HIGGINS. Again, that unlucky gentleman, the wrong Mr. HIGGINS, who is everlastingly get ting himself "into the wrong box," would have done much better than he did, in this matter of the mis directed letter, if he had returned it at once to the writer of it—showing it previously to no one—cer tainly least of all to a Member of the Thames Em bankment Committee. Lord ROBERT MONTAGUE, again, is too hot in his way of taking the matter up, and in calling the parties implicated to account in the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. HORSMAN, moreover, has pleased no one by the tone in which he commented upon the whole transaction, saving and excepting only one delightful mis-reading of a passage of the letter of "A West Londoner," in the Times of the 23d of June, a passage running, according to Mr. HORS. MAN, as follows :—'‘ The real reason put forward by counsel before the committee was that the Duke of BUCCLEUCIE and one or two other noblemen and gentlemen who live between Whitehall-stairs and and Westminster-bridge, wish to enjoy all the ad vantages afforded to them by a profuse ex• penditure in purifying the Times (loud laughter)—in purifying the Thames." As to Mr. COWPER and the Committee, we leave them to fight out the present dispute that has sprung up among them, to fight it out quietly, at their leisure, and to their own entire satisfac tion. All that the public at large really caros about—and it does care about this in veritable earnest, (as certain are we that the result will prove)—all that the public at large does care about in the matter is that the interests of A Duke shall ' 4l, the interestso t f The People in realising upon a R LA , Lug scale o completeness, this great scheme of a Thames Em bankment. Again the Confederates in Virginia have shown themselves, if not the stronger, the more dexterous. They appear to have, for the present, checked M'CLELLAN'S advance. According to the terms of his own proclamation to his army, by this time we were to have had another great and decisive battle. The flooding of the river Chickahominy imposed on bath parties a not unwelcome armistice after the murderous battle of Fair Oaks, but we expected as soon as operations were practicable to hear of a Federal advance, and to receive tidings either of a fearful battle, or of the evacuation of Richmond. The news by the Persia looks all the other way. In two parts of Virginia the Confederates " show fight" in a way which does not look like retreat. Directly in front of Richmond they have made a second successful assault, this time on the right wing of M'CLELLAN's army. It was chiefly by cavalry, which was sustained by artillery; not improbably the very artillery captured on the left flank from Gen. CASEY on the 31st of May. They actually turned M'CLELLAN'S flank, went boldly to his rear, did all the damage they could in the time to the railroad and telegraph by which he keeps up his commu nications with West Point, destroyed forage and tents, took many prisoners, and then got back to their lines again before the Federal army could be put in motion. We do not know how this informa tion should come to us except from a Northern source; and if so, and it turned out to be in truth the best phase of the affair, it shows either unac countable negligence in the army which allowed itself to be surprised a second time, or great skill on the part of the Southerners. It shows at least that their energy and courage have not relaxed. A similar spirit appears in the movements of General JACKSON. It will be remembered how he was sent into the Valley of the Shenandoah to drive the unduly diminished army of BANKS out of the district, an operation which he accomplished, of course, easily and successfully. That, perhaps, re qnired little skill, and not much courage ; it was intentionally a business of overpowering by superior force, and perhaps BANKS rather deserved credit for carrying off his 4,000 so little injured from the pur suit of 15,000. But BANKS returned largely rein forced; FREMONT by forced marches reached the valley from the opposite quarter ; JACKSON now had to retreat, but in doing so he contrived to draw part of FREMONT'S cavalry into an ambuscade, and to inflict on him the maximum of injury, while he made his own way back eastward to join the main Confederate army at Richmond. So it was thought. It now turns out that the main army of the Con federates is strong enough to spare him sufficient reinforcements to turn back again on FREMONT and BANKS; and FREMONT, in turn, is reported to be in a precarious position, in want of provisions, and falling back to Mount Jackson. Intercepted despatches, it is said, show that the real object of the Confederates in sending FREMONT against BANKS was to prevent M‘DowELL from joining M'CLELLAN. 111`DOWELL certainly dare not quit In i addition self his po s i t i on at F re d er i cks b urg, i f J ac k son were as near Washi ngton i n the northwest o f Virginia as he hna was t o o nt this e we a r e southwe st told thatat F Fredericksburg. r r i e c a k r s o b f u t r h g e Federal army is . is, the cou n t ry which is, by Guerilla corps. That the Federals have conquered, and whichlies betwee n t p h t e h F r:u d g e h ra i l t s e , x a c n e d pt c w om h m er u e n t i h c e a y tio a re 'CLELLAN and AVDOWELL c is an n n o o t t se b e e n k re ep fo t u r ins in two strong force to be attacked by the Guerillas. We find as the consequence of the whole that, only THE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY EIENING. JUNE 28, 1862.. five miles from the Confederate capita where with his telescope he may count the very ciinneys of the house, the Federal general is brought I a stand. He is again reduced to the necessity of de.anding large reinforcements, from which it seems ,o follow that he considers the army opposed to hii as at least far too numerous, and in too efficient state to be at tacked at present. Thus, unless MJLELLAN him self be deceived, which is quite pssible, for the South has shown great skill in imosing on their invaders, the campaign would see' to be brought to a close for the summer. It is nt probable that either army will attempt much duing the very hot weather, which is close at hand, ad it is quite a possibility that M'CLELLAN may pend the whole summer before Richmond, as he di the last before Manassas, and then find, when he as made himself strong enough to be sure of victoy, that he must march another fifty or a hundrd miles south, through a hostile country, to find Is foe. In the West, in the States brdering on the great river, the Federals are the onfessed victors_ But one place on the Mississippi Vicksburg, has yet refused to surrender. Bat t e Federal fleet from the North, which has just detroyed the Con federate fleet and taken possession of Memphis, is descending the stream to join tha of Commodore FARRAGUT, and there can be no dabt of the result_ On laud HALLECK is completelytriumphant, and that without a battle. BEAUREGIRD has evidently been compelled to retreat by twc difficult enemies to contend with, hunger and cisaffection. The j accounts of the destitution in wlich the Federals found:the inhabitants show that ,hose who reduced them to this condition must themselves have been reduced to great distress. BEAIIREGARD would certainly not have allowed his men to plunder the Confederate State of Mississippi of all its food unless he had been reduced to extrimity. There is also no doubt that his regiments, which belonged to Tennessee and Kentucky, lad no mind to fight for the plantation States, and the story that they had to be escorted south when the movement was made, is every way likely. But for the fear that they would be added to the Northern army, it is probable they would have been left bEhind, as BEAUREGARD'S object was to feed his troops, who were already too numerous for his means. He is reported to have still a large army in the heart of Mississippi, but of his means of keeping it together there is much reason to doubt. The fighting elsewhere is indecisive and of little importance. To us, while the skill and courage which the South has shown in defending the " chief corner-stone of the Confederation, the Divine Right of Slavery," does seem worthy of a better cause, we must confess that, were they fighting simply for independence of a domineering North, the spirit and energy they have shown with such limited resources, would have commanded the sympathy of all Englishmen. The dark crime on which they base their whole action—the right to hold 4,000,000 of men in the condition of cattle, and next to curse and blight the yet free territory of America with the same iniquity—this it is which compels us to look with indifference on the subjugation of 350,000 slaveholders by Northern freemen. Not that those Northern freemen are guiltless in the matter. They have nursed in the South the hated institution which they have ex. pelled from the North. Still, the North does, at least, believe in free soil, and the two Houses have, we just learn, passed a noble bill for the prohibition of slavery in all the territories of the United States. For this—also for hanging the slave captain, for enfranchising the district of Columbia, for opening diplomatic relations with two black Republics, for offering compensation to all States which abolish slavery, for all these things every one of which the , Txlrl 1,5+1-.1-Iyr nrsr,ruar. v-nwd. wish R aimpg ß to the North. Whether we wish it or not, it will however fight till it conquers ; and it is perfectly vain to think of intervention. We do not doubt the loyalty of our soldiers and sailors, however much they may have been wronged by those in power. Still if there be any body of men who ought to feel assured of the most honour able treatment from the country it is those who fight its battles. A little wrong rankles injuriously in every mind far more than any of the unavoid able hardships attendant on any service. Even in civil matters we see how the little injury of Church rates raises implacable hostility, out of all propor tion to its importance, in the minds of Dissenters. In India, the wrong of not asking the consent of troops enlisted to serve the Company under her MA.TESTY, was so resented by the men that they demanded to be sent home, and we had to lose the pith of our Anglo-Indian army. Surely there is danger of the same feeling of wrong resting in the hearts of the men to whom, by the confession of all parties, the Kertch prize money is due. The case was brought before the Lords last night by the Earl of HARDWICKE, and it cannot be said that even Lord GRANVILLE denied the right of the men. Our readers may remember the ex ploit—an equal number of French and English ships appeared before Kertch on the QUEEN'S birthday, landed some troops, took the place by surprise, and captured guns, coal, steam engines, and other pro perty which were used in the public service. Ac cording to the terms of the QUEEN'S proclamation, this was prize property. The captors were entitled to its proceeds But, not to enter into details, the case was banded about between the Admiralty and the Treasury, the result being that the men were hindered from seeking redress at law, while the Treasury evaded the payment of any sum as a com promise. It is, indeed, well enough for the Trea sury to be economical on behalf of the country, but the country will agree with Lord DERBY that it does not wish for economy at the expense of plain justice. Much less, we would add, does it wish that our sailors and soldiers should ever doubt that a proclamation of their SOVEREIGN'S, intended to stimulate and reward their courage, may not be relied on to the letter. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' BENEVOLENT INSTI TUTION.—The half-yearly court of the governors of the Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the reception of the report and the transaction of the ordinary business. Mr. B. J. Cherer presided. The report congratulated the sup porters of the institution on its increasing prosperity. The gross receipts of the half-year had been £BBG 18s. 61, and after defraying the expenditure and making an addi tion to the stock, a balance of £2lB 15s. 2d. remained in hand. The annual festival of the institution would be held on the sth July, at the Crystal Palace, under the presi denoy of Sir James Duke, and it was to be hoped that it would be highly successful. The income of the half-year had enabled the board to add £250 to the invested property, which now amounted to £3,750. It was earnestly hoped that the institution would receive increased support. Tho report was unanimously adopted, and after some routine business had been transacted, the meeting proceeded to the election of one annuitant. THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-- Although the waters of the Fleet Sewer now flow freely along the completed portion of the new trench or grip, a large stream still finds its way into the railway cutting. On Thursday evening Mr. Jay, the railway contractor, had a large dam constructed at the mouth of the tunnel, which has effectually prevented any further flow of the water into that portion of the work, and yesterday a powerful steam pumping engine was set to work, which has already relieved the tunnel of a great portion of the wate r accumulated in that part, which after being pumped up is discharged into the Brook .hill district sewer. The grip will, it is expected, be completed by Monday or Tuesday, when the flow of water into the railway will be entirely stopped. The large main pipe of the New 4tiver Company has now been safely removed from its hitherto dangerous position. LATEST NEW'S WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND MEXICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURIAY MORNING. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon, Captain Abbott, which left St. Thomas on the 13th inst., arrived at 4.30 a.m. She brings 294 passen gers, 1,245,239 dols. in specie (of which 276,697 dols. is gold and 968,542 dols. silver), jewellery, &c., value 25,350 dols,, and a cargo comprising 477 bags cocoa, 481 serons cochineal, 4 serons indigo, 806 serons bark, 171 cases cigars, 203 bales tobacco, 333 casks coffee, 84 bales sarsaparilla, 83 bales indiarubber, 35 packages skins, 32 packages vanilla, and 185 packages sundries. Colonel le Vicomte do la Pierre, the bearer of important despatches from Vera Cruz, is a passen ger by the Shannon, and also Mr. J. Crawford, C. 13., the English Consul-General at Havannah, with his family. Her Majesty's ships Ariadne, Imaum, and Plover at Jamaica; Immortalite, at Antigua ; Phaeton, at Vera Cruz ; Landrail, cruizing in Bahama Channel; Cygnet was to leave Havannah for Bermuda; and Barracouta, bound to Halifax. At Jamaica the long drought had been succeeded by heavy floods and rain, threatening great destruc tion of property. Ground provisions were very scarce. The public health was good. Business was perfectly stagnant owing to the severe weather. Business, weather, and the health and general prosperity of the people were all promising well at Barbadoes. Exports during the fortnight included 32,531 Mids. 2,544 tres. 11,410 brls, of sugar; 4,725 puns. 239 hhds. 644 brls. of molasses; and 60 puns. 212 hhds. of rum. The schooner Charlotte, of Surinam, had arrived at Demerara, with 19 escaped slaves, who were placed temporarily under the care of the Immigra tion Agent-General. Exports for fortnight in cluded 1,347 hhds. 691 trcs. 180 brls. 82 bags sugar ; 330 puns. 49 hhds 37 brls. rum. At Valparaiso exchange on London was 45d. to 451 d. per dollar. Freights to England, £4 to £4 ss. per ton ; rates firm, and shipping in request. Stocks of nitrate being low at ports of shipment, holders stood out for 1.871 dole., and even 2 dole, per quintal, at which figure no transactions took place. Silver lodes had been discovered in the district of Copiapo, which had given a stimulus to business . An attempted revolution at Arequipa, on the 14th of May, was frustrated. Rather a severe shock of earthquake was felt at Callao and Lima on the 28th of May, but little or no damage was done. There had been no arrivals at Callao of vessels from England since previous advices. Exchange on England, 37d. to 38d. per dollar. The small English steamer Thomas, from London for th© Sandwich Islands, through the Straits of Magellan, 169 days out, called at Lota on the 29th of April for costs. Business at Havannah was dull, and the health of the population about as usual at this season. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 27.—The market still continues in the same state of dullness and inanimation from which arrival of the English funds with improved quotations has not been able to rouse it. Prices have, however, been pretty well maintained, Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f. 30c. The tone of the Railway Share Market is no better than that of the Rente. rhe market continued dull to the close, and left off as follows :- 4t per Cents. 96 50 Bank Shares 3110 Do. end month.... 96 55 Credit F oncier 1630 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 25 Italian Loan 72 40 NO:wd,PIERIEt.B G 8 2° Roman Credit Mobilier.... 845 Spanish Threes.... = = Do. end month.... Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1265 .. 1265 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1092 50 .. 1095 Geneva 360 .. 360 Southern Western Eastern _ _ _ Sardinian Austrian Lombard 380 - .. 380 512 50 512 60 6 8 75 .. 610 - POLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, JUNE 20. Since his return from St. Petersburg, the Mar quis Wielopolski, in his new capacity of the chief of the Civil Government, held a reception on the 17th inst., on the occasion of the installation of. M. Krzyw:cki (late tutor of the Grand Duke Con stantine) as the head of the department of religion and education in the Ministry of the Interior. He took occasion to address those present in the most glowing language respecting the good intentions of the Emperor and the Grand Duke, and assured them that the wishes of the Poles are most dear to the Imperial heart ; and that with time and pa tience they will be fully realised. How deeply such promises en t er ed the Polish hearts is not easy to say ; but it must be admitted that the decree concerning the re-organisation of public education and schools partly justifies the a nticipations of the marquis. Though far from restoring the system in force before the last national insurrection in 1830, o r satisfying every exig enc y at present, yet, as compared with the one pursued during the reign of Nicholas, it is certainly a great improvement, and has produced here a f wavhour a ether blthis e impnewressibeneficial on. The great problem now is measure will be carried out, or whether, as many other Russian manifestoes, are only promulgated to throw dust in the eyes of the European public, it will remain a dead letter; and unless the whole sys tem of governing this country be radically changed, it is hardly to be expected that this sole measure will be acted upon, and that it is merely destined to serve for a temporary political instrument in the wide Russian scheme which for the moment tries to pacify the excited Polish minds. The upshot of this measure is not to restore the ancient Polish University ; it establishes a kind of High School in Warsaw, divided into four sections, viz., 1. Law and adminizitration ; 2. Historical and philosophical ; 3. Medical; 4. Mathematical and physical. The scope that is to be givon to the spread of elementary education among the lower classes and peasantry is large and liberal, and leaves nothing to desire pro vided it is put into execution. Another decree that has been received by the w hole popula tion with unfeigned joy is that con cerning the condition of the Jews. This tardy justice done to a class of people for whom the Poles have been so anxious to obtain a perfect emancipa tion from the power of the Czar, concedes the fol lowing advantages :- 1. The Jews are allowed to become landed pro prietors on certain conditions and restrictions. 2, They are at liberty to reside wherever they like. 3. They may acquire immovable property. 4. They can witness law deeds. 5. The use of the Hebrew in the official documents is not admitted, and renders them invalid in the eyes of law. These two public announcements inaugurating, as it were, the re-entrance of Marquis Wielopolski on the stage of public affairs in Poland, augur doubtless a different, and it is to be hoped, a pros perous one for this persecuted nation. The influence which the Marquis Wielopolski is said to possess over the Grand Duke Constantine may perhaps induce the latter to go so far as to re move all the Russians from the public posts which they occupy in Poland, and to have them replaced by the Poles. Nothing would be more desirable than such an act of justice, As long as the Rus sian officials administer the Russian ukases in Po land confidence cannot be restored, and the cardinal cause of dissatisfaction will remain. The Marquis, I though not a popular man, yet is a Pole, and bent on preserving and developing the Polish ele ment, however much inclined he may be towards Panslavism, a dream in which the Grand Duke is also deeply absorbed. It is even rumoured that highly ambitious notions are entertained by both these personages, and that no efforts will bt- spared to reconcile the Poles, and to obtain their concur rence in founding in duo time a Panslavic empire, over which the younger brother of the Emperor may have to wield an imperial sceptre. The ladies of Poland still wear a deep mourning in spite of all the persuasion used to the contrary by the partisans of the Grand Duke, whom they should not like to arrive in this city when bearing so lugubrious an aspect. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY. The Cunard mail steamer Persia arrived off the harbour a little before noon, having left New York on the 18th inst. She brings 203 passengers and 733,220 doffs. in specie. In the House of Representatives on the 17th a resolution was introduced by Mr. M‘Pherson, that the grade of lieutenant-general in the army of the United States be created upon the cessation of the present hostilities, upon the nomination by the Pre sident and confirmation by the Senate of the bri gadier or major-general who by most eminent and valuable services in the field has established his rightful claim thereto—to continue only during the life of the person so appointed. Skirmishing parties of the garrison at Richmond have got to the rear of M'Clellan's army, and have made a dash at it, inflicting some loss and great annoyance. The following despatch contains the first mention of one fray : "M'Clellan's Read-quarters, Saturday Evening, June 14. "The rebels yesterday, after driving from Old Church a 2cinadron of the Fifth Cavalry, proceeded to Garlick's Land ing, on the Pamunkey River, about four miles above the White House, where they burnt two schooners and some waggons, and drove off the mules. Here their conduct is represented as barbarous, having killed several of our teamsters without any necessity. Those who failed to make their escape were taken prisoners. From here they proceeded to Tunstall's station, four miles from White House, with a view of burning the railroad bridge. A train which was passing down at the time was fired into, killing two persons and wounding several. A colonel belonging to the Excelsior Brigade was there taken prisoner, but suc ceeded in making his escape during the night. A paymaster jumped from the train and hid himself in the woods until morning, leaving 125,000 dols. in the cars. "The train never stopped, but passed on to the White House. After destroying the telegraph wire at this point, they proceeded to Baltimore Cross Roads, near New Kent Court House, crossing the Chickahominy between Bottom's Bridge and the James River about two o'clock this morn ing. The force that accomplished this was composed of 1,500 cavalry and six pieces of artillery, under General Stuart, most of whom were residents of this locality, and, therefore, were no strangers to the roads. At White House, which is a rendezvous of settlers and vendors of small wares, a regular stampedo took place. Lieutenant- Colonel Ingallis, commandant at that post, had all the corps ordered out, and posted in favourable positions to resist any attack that might have been made. The mail boat Nellie Baker, which left this morning, vrts crowded with hangers on of the army and civilians, who thought Fort Monroe to be a more congenial climate. At Old Church the rebels had in reserve six regiments of infantry, with artillery. As soon as the facts were known, pursuit by cavalry was im mediately ordered, but, the enemy having so much of a start, only five were captured. Several arrests have been made to• day of citizens within our lines on suspicion of having given information to the enemy. " The Richmond papers of the 12th state that 3,000 prisoners taken by General Jackson from General Banks left on Wednesday for Salisbury, North Carolina. It also states that of the 142 of our wounded that fell into their hands at Fair Oaks nine have since died, and the balance are in the Liberty Prison Hospital." A despatch from White House, of the 16th says :- 1 , Several guerilla parties are still hovering in the rear of our army. On Saturday and Sunday a small party were prowling around the country on the opposite side of the Pamunkey, their object being to await an opportunity to destroy the shipping at this point, Another party were at Charles City Court-house on Saturday, and to-day are reported to be in the neighbourhood of Williamsburg. Ten of the most prominent citizens remaining on this side of the Chickahominy have been arrested. They undoubtedly gave the information upon which the rebels have operated on our rear during the past few days. The rebels made an man, for the purpose of ascertaining our force and position. • A few were wounded on both sides, but none are known to have been killed. An order was issued to-day by Gen. M'Clellan, extending the department of Gen. Dix, soa e s s to include Yorktown, Gloucester, Williamsburg, and West point. A ,GzTeral , h l letter t War ar fromDe Department t g h to a n s of t despatchesel7t h fre ine afternoon. adds M'Clellan's head- quarters , dated four o'clock this No special amovementnd th e had taken roads ads were i na place. n o T he weather rapidly. Oe Our very cavalry yesterdayptahiadtarnoointhtearnvdisdirtotvoeAthshem off, and lanod,surprised a party of rebels at cap tured some property." The correspondent of the Phaadelphia Inquirer has some particulars of the demonstration on the Government railway train, on the 13th. They are from the narrative of a military passenger :- 4 , The captain left Orchard S ation about half-past six o' clock. and did not stop until the train reached the water station, 10 miles beyond Despatch Station, where the en gine took in water. The train then proceeded on its way towards 1 unstall's Station, which point they passed with out molestation. When half a mile this side of the sta tion, having crossed the bridge over Black Creek, he first heard the firing of musketry, the shot from which struck the tender of the engine, which was in advance of the former. Ths noise produced was that similar to gravel being suddenly projected against the side of a tin vessel. He then saw our pickets running, who cried out to our men, who were standing upon the platform of the open cars, For God's sake get down, the rebels are a head.' The captain was sitting by the side of Captain Voorhees, of the 96th N.Y. Regiment, and private John Briggs, of the Sixth New York Battery. A few seconds afterwards the captain heard a volley of musketry, which proceeded from the right bank of the road, while at the same time a few straggling shots were fired from the left. The captain, then looking up, saw three or four cavalrymen, with carbines in hand, firing upon the cars. He then prostrated himself on ' the platform of the cars, and in this position passed out of harm's way. John Briggs, of whom we have before spoken, was instantly killed. The captain also saw several men fall around him, among whom was, he thinks, a colonel. Sergeant Ross, of the 93d New York Regiment, who col lected fares on the train, states that there was on board one colonel, a major, and several officers of the line. The rebels did not form themselves into line of battle, but were scat tered along the embankment, which, in consequenee of the deep gorge at this point, formed a sort of breastwork for them. Lieutenant S. Hall, of the Signal Corps, was one of the passengers on board the train. " Almost simultaneous with the attack on the cars at Tunstall's,Station:the rebels made a descent upon a gang of Irishmen who were engaged unloading several Government vessels laden with forage at Garlick Landing, some five milves beyond this point, on the Pamunkey river. The rebels here appeared in force, drove our workmen from the ground, obliging many of them to take to the river in order to make their escape. At the time two schooners, the D. A. Berry and the Island City, were engaged in unloading forage, and three trains of wagons, 75 in all, drawn by 460 mules, were being loaded. These and the vessels fell into the hands of the rebels. The vessels were set on fire, as also many of the waggons, while the horses were captured or shot. The force employed at the time at the landing consisted of 50 men. Some of these were shot and others were taken prisoners by the rebels. The force of the latter was not over 100. As in the case of the railroad attack, the attacking party is supposed to be a guerilla band, composed of the farmers in the country through which our troops have passed. So soon as information of the attack was received at White House, a regiment of cavalry, together with a strong force of infantry and a bat tery, were sent out in search of the marauders, and also to give protection to our Government property at this point. It is not supposed that the rebels will make any demonstra ti. , .ns further in this direction to. night." The correspondent further states : ' "From several captures made to-day, it appears that a detachment of cavalry, some 600 strong, belonging to Stewart's Old Virginia Cavalry, now commanded by Colonel Fitz Hugh Lee, left Richmond the night before last, and secreting themselves during the day within our lines, at the hour named made the attack at the two points named, having eff2cted an entrance on our left wing. The force attacking the cars towards dark did not number more than 200 men, although some assert that it was 1,000 strong. No doubt a larger part of the regiment, it may be all of it, was within our lines, but the force was divided up at the several points of attack. The name of the pay master who jumped from the cars the time the attack was ma d e i s Taylor, and he was followed by his clerk, a Mr. Baum, both of whom secreted themselves in the woods during the night, and lay there until daylight this morning, when they came in at the White House. Mr. Taylor states that he heard the rebels distinctly addressing, during the night, an officer by the title of Colonel, and that a portion of the railroad had been torn up by his orders directly after the passage of the first train, so as to prevent a second from passing. This train, however, for which they were lying in wait, became advised of the attack made upon the one that had preceded it, and was stopped at Dispatch, At a late hour during the eight the rebel cavalry concentrated in and arouild Tuustall's station left that point and retreated across the Pamunkey river at Garlick Landing their horses and riders being ferried acros the river in boats. Thus their entrance was made by the right, though their exit was effected by the left. At Baltimore Crossroads an attack was made upon a surgeon and several other men, all of whom were carried off, together with a considerable amount of medical stores, the rebels saying they were in need of the same. The attack was certainly a'bold one, and the reason why the rebels did not do a greater amount of damage lays in the fact that they were in fear of being cut off by a force already marching upon them from the front. Thero is no doubt in the world but that their original intention was to burn as many of the bridges between the White House and the Chickahom iny as could possibly be fired by them ; but from the suddeness in which the alarm was communicated to our troops, in their front and rear, their design was foiled." The Richmond Whig thus speaks of the prospects of M'Clellan reducing the city : " The brilliant operations of General Jackson in the Val ley of the Shenandoah, crippling and dispersing the forces of Milroy and Schenck at M'Dowell—of Banks at Front Royal and Winchester—of Fremont at Cross Keys, and Shields at Port Republic, have had a wide-reaching and important bearing on the war. These several corps were to have been consolidated and brought across the Blue Ridge en reuto for Richmond. When they reached the Rappa hannock, M'Dowell, with his Fredericksburg army, was to fall into line, and the united columns were to be precipi tated on the devoted city from the north. At the same time, it is probable Burnside was expected to be on hand from the south, advancing up the south side of the James from the direction of Suffolk, in conjunction with the Monitor and its consorts in the river. The capital being thus assailed from the north and south, M'Clellan was to make the grand attack from the east, in front. The plan was a gigantic one, and, in all probability, would have succeeded but for the masterly movements of Jackson, completely paralysing the valley force, and . compelling M'Dowell to detach a large portion of his army to save Banks and com pany from demolition, and their capital from cap ture. Thus left without co-operation and succour, M'Clellan is afraid to strike. Within sound almost of the church bells of Richmond, within sight almost of the long-coveted treasure, a sudden disappointment strikes him, a cold tremor seizes him, and he skulks and hides himself like a craven in the dismal marshes of the Chickahominy— one day sending to Washington a braggart and mendacious bulletin of what his invincible army has done and is about to do, and the next bawling with all his might for reinforce ments. For the present, at least, he is cornered by the bold dash of Jackson—the next move should be a check mate." From General Fremont's army the following despatch has been received : " Mount Jackson, June 16, " Reliable information has been received at headquarters that Jackson has been reinforced a second time by 12,00 0 men. General Fremont is in a very exposed condition, in danger of being overwhelmed by a vastly superior force. No reinforcements are on the way to him. It is believed that much of the Corinth army is about to be sent to hold the Shenandoah Valley,with its immense supplies of wheat until after harvest time." THE UMBRELLA CHARGE AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The publication of the following facts map prevent many people from making fruitless com plaints about the treatment which they receive from the Exhibition commissioners by showing that the remedy is in their own hands. As a season ticket holder I have from the first refused the payment of a penny for the enforced custody of my umbrella on entering the picture galleries, feeling that no such charge ought to he made at all, and that ticket holders, at least, could legally resist it. For nearly three weeks I have maintained this refusal (at the same time giving my name and address) without any attempt being made to recover the money or to detain my umbrella, but on Satur day last I was informed that positive orders bad been given to detain all articles upon which the fee had not been paid; and, although I went to the office and made the most formal remonstrances, I was unable to obtai❑ it. I, therefore, put the matter into the hands of s solicitor, and instructed him to commence legal proceedings by formally demanding my property ; and, in reply to a lawyer's letter, the Secretary writes that my umbrella will be given up on appli cation at the very office where on Saturday last it was refused me in the most positive manner. These ra‘..t.. nand *nn comment from me, but a knowledge of them may be useful to others. I have the honour to remain, Your obedient servant, A SEASON TICKET HOLDER. June 27th. THE SPIT.HEAD FORTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—May I ask the public, through your valu able paper, what resistance could the proposed forts at Spithead, if armed with the most efficient artil lery, offer to an attack on my system of warfare-- viz., the forts are approached under cover of all impenetrable fog, produced by discharging inflam mable liquid, from shot-proof steam vessels of light draught and great speed, which ignites spontane ously, instantly generating a dense cloud of sulfa eating vapour, enveloping the forts, rushing into the casemates, b urn i ng fiercely on iron in the h muzzle of gu ns , or on the water, and rendering the._ air in the f or t s hi ghly explosive and pernicious t° life ? Perhaps the Defence Commissioners have ar ; ranged with o th er c i v i l i sed nations not to use t- h "barbar ous an d unc i v i l i sed " system of warfare' 0 it they term it ; if so , th e pu b l i c ought to kg°l6: before o rnamen ti ng our coast with such iraill°‘ -,e # able useless structures. Your obedient servant, J. MACINTOSH. Stine 27, 1862. By the death of Major• General the Hon. R. Bruce the following promotions will take place :—Colonel the Hon. George Cadogan, C. 8., late of the Grenadier Guards, to be Major-General ; Lieut.-Col. R. Jenkins, Unattached, Staff Officer of Pensioners at Chatham, to be Colonel; Major G. LefeTre Dickson, late of the 30th Regi ment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; and Captain R. C. Dudgeon, 61st Regiment, to be Major in the Army.— Army and Navy Gazette, ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. —We under stand that the council of this society, yielding to the fre quently expressed wishes of many of the fellows, have re solved to repeat the experiment—tried a short time since with such groat success --of the performance of choral music by the band of the Royal Artillery, in the censervatorTi as South Kensington, this afternoon. The putlic, as well the fellows, will have an opportunity of judging somiciedeoftooguerthsole c r i a ie t rs A c n an tw , a e n rp d d p o r , o e v m e pi t o o y b th e ei t r vi le i uiri-eours The two gentlemen who recent'," committedt. e bro D e : . mt . named B—, who have for a long time resided at Bru . ss A letter addressed to a friend, a few hours before puttin.g ifl execution their design, inform ' s him that they had decided on on putting an end to their existence in consequence o da ~ successful operations in business. " Born on the same , y 1 they wrote, " we have resolved to die on the same also. ' DEATH OF MRS. SIIEPHERD.—We have to ci an on t - nounce the death of Mrs, Sunday morning last, the 22 d ins .: at h herr a e c s c i a dence, 7, Terrace, Kennington-park. The decease Shepherd w d i was a favourite for some years where, as Mrs. Susan Pope, actress at Astley's Amphith s e h a e tr r e ep in re t s h en e te d d aysof Ducrow, the stately heroines of the equestrian drama, f or w hi c h she was peculiarly qualified by the possession of a fine command ing figure, and the cultivation of excellent elocutionary powers. In January, 1837, she was married at Bermondsey to Mr. Richard Shepherd, at present lessee of the Royal Surrey Theatre, and her death, though at a mature age, will occasion great regret amongst a large circle of friends by whom she was sincerely esteemed.—Era. DESTRUCTION OF A STEAM SAW -MILL BY FIRE. —A fire of a very serious character broke out at a steam saw Bolsover, Derbyshire, on Wednesday morning. On the previous evening the building was left safe about 11 o'clock, and on the following morning it was observed in flames. Assistance was speedily obtained, but the destruc tive element cou,d not be subdued until the mill was gutted. It is supposed that the machinery got overheated, and set fire to the premises. The nail was in the occupation of Messrs. Smith ; it was not insured. The amount of damage as yet, cannot be correctly stated. IMPORTANT CAB REGULATION.—In consequence of numerous complaints having been made to the Commis sioners of Police of cabmen refusing to take a fare on the plea of being the Act for th e R egulation of Hackney Carriages, has di engaged, Sir R. May ne , un d er the power of rected that boards, with the words " Engag,cd" and "Dis engaged" be supplied to each cab, the drivers of which (under a penalty for neglecting to do so) are to hang one of these, as the case may be, in a conspicuous plane on the splash-boards of their respective vehicles. 1 'I