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BANK OF DEPOSIT. (Established A.D. 1844.) No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON . Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free On application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. ANNUITIES. NATIONAL ASSURANCE AND INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION, 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 17 Vic., cap. 43. ESTABLISHED A.D. 1844. IMMEDIATE ANNUITIES granted on very favourable terms. The Tables for Reversionary anrl Deferred Annuities Are particularly deserving, of attention, whether regarded as a means of providing for a particular individual, or as a re source against the casualties of age and the uncertainties of health and fortune. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Prospectuses sent free on application. R OPAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Contributions. PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CUAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S., ?.. Chair man of Lloyd's. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN —Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., Chairman of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. APPEAL. The Committee of Management haVe to state that, during the past year, the Institution has incurred expenses amount ing to £6, 58 ls. on the following* Life-boat stations:— Llandudno Newbiggin, N ENGLAND. orthumberland. Southport,' Lancashire.Carnarvonshire. Saltburn, Yorkshire. Lyth am, File ,• Silloth, Cumberland. Catstor, TOOrfOlk. SCOTLAND. Aldbor °ugh, Suffolk. Ayr, Ayrshire. Margate, Kent. Irvine, Walmer, Kantyre, • Arc,ryleshire. Selsey, Wes • t Sussex. Buckle, Banffshire. Grange, Isle of Wight. Banff Brooke, St. Andrew's, Fifeshire. Penzance, CornwalL North Berwick, Haddington- St. Ives, shire. Newquay, „ IRELAND. Penarth, Glamorganshire. Portrush, Antrim. Llandwyn, Anglesey. Tyrella, Dundrum Bay. The Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores, alterations, and inspection of its numerous Life-bo , ts, Boat houses, and Transporting-carriages, £3,632 19s. ; and £1,550 for exercising the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether a total of £11,441. During the past year the Life-boats of the Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following wrecked Vessels : Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas. of Shields Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow . Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. Schooner Catherine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields .. A Barge of Teignmouth Brig George and James, of London Brie Zephyr, of Whitby Coble Honour, of C , ll!ercoats Schooner Eliz of North Shields .. Barque Oberon, of Liverp oo l • • Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth Brig Scotia, of Sunderland Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge :. Brig Ann, of Blyth Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. Schooner Admiral Hood, of Roche , iter Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee Schooner Rose, of Lynn Brig Prodroma, of stockton Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg • • Brigantine Diana, of Predrikshamn • • Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .. 1 .. 6 .. 3 .. 9 .. 5 - 4 .. 11 .. 2 .. 8 .. 6 .. 3 .. 7 .. 15 .. 9 .. 2 .. 6 .. 5 .. 8 .. 3 .. 5 .. 16 .. 2 .. • 5 .. 3 .. 9 .. 6 .. 5 .. 3 .. 11 .. 7 6 .. 7 .. 7 Total •• ..210 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has Voted £9OB Bs. 4d. as re yards. It has also granted rewards ainounting to £203 4s. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons, by shore -boats and other means, making a total of 455 persons saved from a watery grave on the Coasts of the United Kingdom. During the present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti tution have also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following Vessels : Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford Schooner Prosp ct, of Berwick .. Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives A Fishing-boat of Whitburn • Brig Arethusa, of Blyth •• • • Schooner Dewi Wvn, of Portmadoc Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris Schooner William, of Morecambe . .. Smack Gipsy, of N ewry •• • • Schooner Vargaret Anne, of Preston Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven Schooner William, of Liverpool Lugger Nimrod, of C as tl e t own .. Brig Providence, of Shields .. Brig _Mayflower, of Newcastle Schqoner Village Maid, of Fleetwood Barque Guy tna, of Glasgow Brig Boman Empress, of Shields Brig San Spirid'one, of Galaxide Schooner Voador du Vouga; of Vianna French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough 'Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover Schooner Orezon, of Stonehaven .... • • • • Brig St. Michel, of M arcus 8 Spanish Barque Primrra de Tonierigo (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. 1 Schooner Hiverall, of Penzace (saved vessel and crew) - 4 .. 4 .. 8 _ 5 .. 3 .. 8 _ 8 .. 4 :: 10 .. 2 .. 8 .. 6 .. 5 - 4 Total .. • • —lB4 The public cannot b u t sympathise with the vigorous efforts now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertion the Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Fifteen Life-boats under its management, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency. a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, it its humane mission is to be perpetuated. Donations and Annual Su scriptions will be thankfully re c eived by Aressrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; %lessrs. !Terries, Farquhar. and Co., St. Jame ,i s-street, London ;by a 1 the Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C. Payments maybe made by Cheques or by Post-office Orders {crossed), to Me ssrs. W nis, Perci va l, and Co., or to the Secre tary. A.D. 1720. 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' .4 9,, 'k i 034 - \ .: ~ ..,<, , t ..... eot , agr,,,,,5, 1. , , ,v ,;(....z-, , i! .. .." ,....... kTif - r 2, " 4 " . e 4 y l i 4y -, - / 5, , ,,,, ,,,A 1 i 0 , , , 1 ` 1,. :1:\ 1 *. c0. ,1, , . , ~, Ailli , ,t , ‘ 7. 4.:- , . 4,1., .e. 411 '4' ENTP P' nn+ . ......... ..„ PR1CE....... -.4d. STAMPED ....sd. Run and the retreat of the Federalists to their in trenchments. They are not yet in a position to assume an offensive attitude. The Confederates have been equally motionless in front of the Poto mac. Washington has had another panic, but it is not too much to say that it will soon be a vast in trenched camp, defended by redoubts, regular earth works, palisades, and abattis north and south, with the Potomac flowing through the midst of it, which, if properly defended, may bid defiance to anything but a regular attack, and decisive victories over the covering armies. New York, afraid of its returning Volunteer regiments, has given them an ovation, and is endeavouring to induce the men to re-enlist. General M'Clellan is working with immense vigour in constructing an army out of the various excellent materials which have been forwarded to him from the North and West in men, horses, and guns. He has to make regiments, and then brigades, and then divisions, and, over and above all, officers. He has to quell a mutinous and disorderly spirit among some of the t roo p s , an d t o b reat h e i n t o t h e mass t h e spirit of su b or di nat i on an d d i sc i pl i ne. The taint o f di sa ff ec ti on among t h e N or th ern troops i s widely spread, and is most dangerous, for it is, in my mind, quite causeless. This very day, in spite of the despatch of prisoners to the Dry Tortu gas from the 79th and other regiments, outbreaks 'amounting to MOH* 'took- place tratorie the Men' of : the 12th New York and a Pennsylvanian regiment, which were to be disbanded yesterday. The 2d Maine, the 21st New York, the 10th New York, and other regiments have also been in trouble, and General Butler was obliged to bring his guns to bear on the mutinous. men of his command at Fortress Monroe. The complaints of the men as to bad food are utterly unfounded. No army in the world has better rations than the troops of the United States. But the men want " iced water, milk, and butter." By the official, reports it appears that 40 officers and some 500 men have deserted. They have not gone over to the enemy, but they have got away from their friends. Many of the prisoners may fairly be considered as deserters in disguise after that. I have just returned from an extended visit of the lines, and from a short run into Maryland, of which I must defer the account till next mail. I found the camps on the Potomac in very good order. The works are of the very finest description of field defences, and on the north side the army is at work forming a chain of redoubts on the heights from the rear of Georgetown round towards the Baltimore Railway. This enormous series of intren chments will require an immense force to defend send cover it, and, although troops are certainly coming in, they do not as yet arrive in sufficient force t o do all that will be required. AUGUST 27. As an instance of the inconveniences of the sys tem new pursued by the United States Government and of the embarrassment caused to them by their own acts, take fee case of Mr. Mure, an American naturalised subject, as I believe, and carrying de spatches addressed to Earl Russell by Mr. Bunch, the British Consul at Charleston, Mr. Mure is the bearer of other letters written by people in the South, who are, of course, Secessionists,--to their friends in Europe. Mr. Seward discovers that, among the property of Mi.. Mure, there is not only matter of the latter kind, but a regular despatch to the English Fore ign-office. What will he do with it ? He applies to Lord Lyons to come and see it opened, I believe, and assist him in disposing of it. Lord Lyons decliLues to do anything of the kind. The despatches addressed to the British Minister have been seized. Th ey are in the oustody of the Secretary of Stat e for Foreign Affairs of the Wash ington Governm ant. Let the United States Go vernment deal with them. Mr. Seward, of course, cannot send the .:despatches direct to Earl Russell, and the strange proceeding of forwarding the com munications of a British Consul with his Govern. ment by the Secretary of State at Washington, to the American Minister at London, who will pro bably thereupon xemit them toDowning-street,will be the result—with what after conclusion it is not easy to say. Of ciourse any complaints founded on matter contained in private and confidential com munications between individuals not owning alle giance to the United States, which become impro perly known owing to the seizure of the corre spondence and tb.e laxity of the authorities, can not be entertained; fora moment. Mr. Mure seems to have acted improperly if he has indeed con veyed any despatches for the Southern Commis sioners under the covert of the passport granted to him by the British. Consul as bearer of despatches; but it is very doubtful, indeed, whether the arrest itself was not um:lawful, as the British flag should have protected him for any political offence, and if the captain of the vessel had refused to give him up the question would have assumed a very serious form. It is quite probable that Mr. Bunch and M. de Belligny, the Consuls of Great Britain and France, may have asked Mr. Trescot to ascertain Mr. Davis's views respecting the propositions agreed to by all the Powers excerpt the United States at the Paris Conference, in preflence of the fact that the Confe derate privateers sire becoming very active; and if Mr. Trescot's repmsentations induced the Govern ment at Richmond, to agree to all these propositions except the first, which does away with privateering itself, no one can stay any harm has come of it. But it by no means follows that the gloss of an ignorant Secessionist is ccrrrect, and that the Confederate States are by one Step nearer to recognition in con sequence of that act than they were after the battle of Manassas. It would not be surprising to find that Mr. Seward - was well aware an application would be made to Mr. Davis, whom we have acknow THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1861. THE CIVIL WAR IN AM.E.RIC.I. something more than distinctions without diffe- ( From the Correspondent of the Times.) WASHINGTON, AUG. 20. The anxiety which existed to learn the effect on Europe, and especially on England, of Bull's Run, has at least been appeased by the receipt of the mails. Why there was any such intense feeling on the point it is not easy to see, as any person could have foretold what the effect would be. Bat, never theless, there is an expression of anger and disap pointment at the result. Although the language used by the Americans in their own journals was far stronger than any which has appeared in the English papers, and although Congressmen and editors wrote in terms of the utmost contempt and sarcastic indig nation respecting the behaviour of the troops at the close of the day and in the rout, it is taken in ill part that any such freedom of expression should be exhibited by foreigners. It will be remembered that in the account I wrote of the panic I expressly stated that my letter did not refer to the behaviour of the troops in action, and that I left the Americans to give their own account of the fight, merely adding that I had been informed their behaviour in the advance and in the early part of the day had been exceedingly creditable. The battle was fought on the 21st of July, and it was midnight before I reached my quarters in Washirrgtou, after a very long and harassing day, and a distressing ride on a horse which had gone over 60 and odd miles of ground in 17 or 18 hours. On Monday night I was obliged to close my despatch in order to send it off by the 4 a.m. train on Tuesday morning by special courier to catch the steamer for England, which left Boston on Wednesday. It was obviously impossible to do more than record my impressions, nor could I correct any errors on my part or that of others. The reports of the generals since published give an excellent account in detail of all the different views of the action along the whole line, and they do not appear to be much at variance with anything I felt it my duty to state. Now, it would be well if in giving accounts of warlike operations the writers were to make themselves acquainted with the meaning of plain military terms. We should then hear less of " charges," and " masked batteries," And such stuff. It is not at all likely that " desperate con flicts," in which two men are killed on one side and a horse is captured on the other, will disappear from print, or that similar exaggerations will cease to entrap the unwary when appearing in large type in the sensation headings of the journals; but there is a considerable chance that a people so high spirited, so sensitive of ridicule, and so proud as the Americans, will gradually correct the tendency to deal in language which exposes them to that which they most dislike. It is not to be supposed for one moment that the American people cannot furnish the materials of as fine an army as the world could produce. No one questions the gallantry of their race. They combine the " furia Francese" with the cold courage of the Anglo-Saxon. But in their contests they have been made to feel that no de pendence can be placed on mere personal bravery, in which most men are equal in a military sense, as spoken of by Jornini and other writers, and that bravery plus discipline cannot ever fail to prove more than an equation for the same quality minus discipline. The history of their great struggle with England is full of examples of panics and flights alternating will desperate and steady fighting. The Connecticut Militia were now to blame; at another time it was the troops of North Carolina; again it was the men of Pennsylvania who fled ; and Washington had once at least the mortifica tion of seeing the troops of the latter State march off home on the eve of a fight, and from the face of an enemy, just as M'Dowell was abandoned by the men of the 4th Pennsylvanian Regiment and the gunners and officers of various batteries on the night and morning preceding Bull's Run. At a later period the Reces of Bladensburg took place, and in the Mexican war more than once the Volunteers justified by their conduct the exclamation of an officer of ranl. who said to me, "For my sins I com manded Vol mteers in Mexico, and—God help me ! —I shall ha4e to do it again." It is the same story all over the world when civilians are called into action without miitary discipline. There can be no de pendence ;laced on ill-drilled and badly-officered Volunteersin line of battle. Sedgemoor, Vinegar hill, Culloeen, and the early fights of the French Revolutiorists on the frontier tell the same story without asparagement to Englishman, Irishman, Seotehmaa, or Frenchman. But it will be said the South ought to show the influence of the same defects as the North. The defects do not exist in anything like the same de- gree. The Southern armies contain a larger propor tion of men who have been accustomed to command and to otey than the Northern armies. They are under better discipline, because they fight with more animosity, and they have been more habi tuated to military life. The social distinctions which exist in the South between rich and poor, between landed proprietors and their dependants, extend their influences to the field. No Southern company would, if it could, elect a mere bour geois, t shopkeeper, or the keeper of a house of ill-farm, to be an officer. There are some Southern States such as South Carolina, which have been drillirg their militia for years, and in others the fear of servile insurrection has created military or ganisations of infantry and cavalry which are now in the service of the Confederates, fighting con amore against the Abolitionists. They are more used to arms than the bulk of the Northern populations, excepting those of the Western States. There is no " shipping on the back" of officers by privates, such as I have seen in the Northern regiments in the streets. The Sohn Brown raid gave an impulse to all the military systems of the South, and prepared them for this conflict. In Southern towns and counties there exists a system of patrols and armed police unknown in the North, and the parade of armed force before the slaves was a necessary re gait of their condition. In a word, my words of warning that it would be necessary to handle the troops of the North with very great caution and skill in the face of the Confederates have as yet been borne out to the letter. But they are not better or stronger men. The poor whites of the seaboard slave States may be fairly set against the inferior population of the Northern cities, and the Secessionist levies of Tennessee may find their match in the men of Illinois and lowa. If the war continues discipline will do its work with the United States armies, and then the question will resolve itself into one of numbers and position. At the present moment there is not, as far as I can judge, outside of the regulars, and one or two crack regiments, a single battalion which could be relied on to form into square to receive a charge of cavalry under a heavy fire with any regularity or success. And this brings me back to what I was saying con cerning the use or abuse of military terms. " Charges" are not mere " advances" of horse or foot, as may be seen by a reference to Decker, Bar dier, Burn, or Faye. A " battery" means either a work covering and defended by guns, guns them selves in the field, or a division of artillery ; and it does not follow that a battery was "masked" be cause it was not observed till it opened fire. It is only when artificial obstacles or screens of brush wood are used, which are thrown down when the guns open, that the word " masked" can be pro perly applied to guns, and it is seldom or never used in reference to field pieces unlimbered in woods, and moved from time to time during the action. So far as I can learn, there was only one work defended by them in the immediate front of the Federalists at Bull's Run, and that was the earth e n work t a coveting y t he b r the w i d o ge rd . s , T , a h t e t a g c k u , la a e d a e v a n w e e e r , t i on plain,' " t fi e e r l s , b t a h t e t e r y truth , pis aul e - m b , y an t d he t in h phrasese se a m " g er i r i t n s s ," s p u o c s h i r e really more gene rallyfavoured in thereeon conveyed edyeesdcritphtaion rences. • The first part of the campaign has 'been played out. That it,has ended disastrously for 'the Fede ralists is to be attributed, in my mind, to the impa patience and ignorance of the politicians who forced the military leaders to precipitate advances for which they were not prepared. Up to the time of taking an aggressive movement all had gone well for the Union. The principal army in front of Washington was learning its duties, and could lie there in perfect safety. It occupied the soil of Vir ginia from Alexandria to the extreme western limits of the State. M'Clellan and Patterson had defeated the Secession leaders or forced them back. from the Valley of Virginia, and Johnson had taken up his post at Winchester with no other view than to join Johnston and Beauregard in case of their being pressed. Butler extended the limits of his command in another part of the State from Fortress Monroe to Hampton and Newport News. Lyon and Siegel, moving with caution, were gradually recovering Missouri to the Union. But there was no pleasing the violent and ignorant men who had the ears of the Coun cillors at Washington. They wanted immediate action. They cried out ".On to Richniond " when they could scarcely march to Manassas': The army, once set in motion, had to go on. It fiew back in fragments, and the work has all to be done over again. In the moment of Lyon's earlier successes I heard a Senator declare that it was not the Gene ral at all, but a politician who was with him as officer of a regiment, who had done all the work, and he implied that if General Scott were simi larly blessed, and subjected to the action of a poli tician of tact ana decision, similar triumphs would have been gained in Virginia. Now see the result. The cause of the Union has received a heavy blow and great discouragement, while that of disunion has been proportionably advanced. There is greater apprehension at this moment of an attack on Washington than at any former time since I have been here. General Wool, the successor of General Butler, who was obliged to abandon Hamp ton, in consequence of the withdrawal of his troops, to strengthen the army of the Potomac after the battle of Bull's Run, is almost hemmed in at Fortress Monroe, and is uneasy about his outly ing troops at Newport News. Harper's Ferry is evacuated by the Federalists, who are concentrat ing, under Banks, about Point-of-Rocks, lower down the river, and are anxious about Frederick itself and Western Maryland. Lyon killed, his army routed, Siegel repulsed with slaughter, the Federalists retreating as fast as they can, the Se cessionists pursuing them —all that had been gained in Missouri utterly lost for the time, the army of the Potomac driven back to take refuge within its lines—these things tell their own tale, and are the best rebuke of the presumptuous men who cast aside the lessons of experience and mili tary science that they might gratify their passion and impatient desire to overcome their enemies. They have been only saved by the weakness of their antagonists, who as yet have developed as little vigour in following up an advantage as if they had been old and respectable generals on our own home model, aided by regular councils of war. The aggressive campaign has ended thus far un successfully for the North. The second part is yet to come. Which will be the aggressor this time in the fight is yet to be seen, but the indications are that the South will try its hand in an offensive move ment, and, if it does, the North will, I think, have its revenge for Bull's Run, and, may be, a balance to its credit on the other side. Whatever may be the object in view it is certain that the Government at Richmond is acting as if it intended to create apprehensions in Washington, and thereby animate its friends, and they are exceedingly numerous in Maryland. There has been a gradual advance of the Confederates towards the Upper Potomac, and their outposts have been at the same time ostenta tiously drawn back from thevipkilty of the Federal lines. A strong force is it — sista . lying near Win chester, which is on the rail to Harper's Ferry, and at Strasburg, which is on the rail from Manassas. Another corps is, according to several accounts, close to Leesburg, the terminus of the rail to Alex andria, and another strong corps lies between Fairfax Courthouse and Alexandria, resting on Manassas, and covering the roads to Washington and the town of Alexandria. A considerable number of scows and large flat-bottomed boats have been collected in the creeks of the Potomac below Washington, and it is suspected that there are batteries at Mathias Point, which commands the channel of the river at a projecting spur about 55 miles below the capital, but that as yet they have held their tongues. At Acquia Creek, from which the rail to Richmond, by which passengers and traffic were usually carried in times gone by from Washington, runs, there have been batteries for a long time past, and it is now believed there is a camp there, and a considerable increase to the works. The scows, collected to the number of 500, could be loaded with guns, cavalry, and infantry with ease, and many of them could carry a company complete at a trip. The channel of the river runs on an average within range of rifled ordnance, and there is no doubt that the Confederates are making ordnance of that nature at the Rich mond Foundry. From Port Tobacco, on the bank of the Potomac, opposite Mathias Point, a march of 25 miles would bring the Confederates behind Washington, on the line of rail between the capital and Baltimore and Annapolis. But the country is difficult, intersected with streams, and ill-provided with roads and means of communication. It is affirmed that the Confederates could not advance because they had no transport, and that they are now in possession of a proper train ; but any attempt to cross the river now would be very diffi cult, owing to the activity of the Government in purchasing vessels and hastily fitting them out as steam gunboats, to neutralise which the enemy must erect strong batteries with guns of long range to clear the river—a work of time if it can be done at all. The hopes of the Secessionists are kept alive by rumours, a sort of food which is by no means healthy in these parts. Meantime the North is in such a mood that the Government is encouraged to proceed to the most extreme acts in repressing opinions hostile to their measures. It is now a crime against the United States to denounce the war, or even to cry aloud for peace, and there is a spirit abroad which promises to make the struggle last as long as men and money can be found to bring it to an end, The hardy fishermen who are fostered by a system of bounties on the North-eastern shores of the New England States have tendered their services at sea to the Government, and the offi cers and men of the Mercantile Marine have also great body of brave placed s a a t i t o h r s e d w i s h p o o s w a o l f s o t o h n e men-of-war's men, as good as can be needed for the b n e av g y oo a d Banners and work they have to do. The army under M'Clellan is at least as strong as that which was under M'Dowell, and there cannot be less than 55,000 men around Washington this moment, without including the force under Banks. There is an abundant sup ply of sailors for such ships as the Government can provide, and they are determined to act on the rivers as well as on the seacoast the moment they can do so. The following is a d escr i p ti on o f t h e gunboats which are required for the former work in the Government tenders and specifications : " The load draught of water not to exceed 6 feet 9 inches, to be armed with two rifled guns of 7,0001 b. each, one at each end of the vessel; also with two 12-p oun d h ow i tzers w be it l h o a o e p e e n r d so e n n s s , e w r f it e h r dpirsotviliisiinogns: fo t ot h ra e b 6loecomplementdays,wat water; rto; thoa bv t e o e s 2 e ,o h o e o en g e a r ll r o i n g s ge o d f , water in aivnetaanruk rudder ander at t eacho be providedpro perly n o n g o l a u n r b i is e a a b u u s s e e ds she he h r a e s , i d n e d e e l a e r d e , d t o th b a e t p s r h a e ise w d i i l s j prote c t e d b y a post. " dish observe a strict neutrality. It was next alleged that she would force the blockade for the sake of the vital necessity "cotton." Now, when it is pretty clear that she will do nothing of the kind on that account, she is accused of atrocious designs on the whole Republic, and it is said that her conduct in not forcing the blockade is accounted for by her desire to see the North and South waste each other in a prolonged war. In the same way her refusal to force the blockade for cotton and her desire to ren der herself independent of the semi-monopoly of the South is said to arise from s her hatred to America generally. In fact these men are frantic because England gives them no pretext for anything but vulgar insolence. In the present state of the public mind, as expressed by the tone of the papers, it is quite evident that there is an incapacity, produced by passion, to distinguish falsehood -from truth, and a profound judicial blindness, feigned or real, among the public instructors. For instance, • one paper accepts, or pretends to accept, the most ridiculous statements in, or said to be in one of the letters from the South seized on Mr. Mure. There is, of course,. the usual sensation heading,—" English Neutrality —Startling Development," and then comes an extract from the intercepted letter, to the effect that " Mr. B." showed the writer confidentially my letter about the battle of Bull's Run. The pro bability or possibility of the fact is never thought of for a moment; it is a peg to weave a string of lies, upon, though the journal in question is au - fad at making wh o l e c l o th s o f these articles without any pegs at all. O n th e same authority the State Department is actually called upon not to lose a moment in demanding an • explanation from Lord Lyons respecting some statment in the same letter that the nomme B. and Mr. Bouligny had sent Mr. Trescott (who was Under-Secretary of State during Mr. Buchanan's administration) to Mr. Jeffer son Davis, at Richmond, to ask him to accept the doctrine that the neutral flag covers goods not con traband of war, which "is a step of direct treat ing with our Government." Another paper takes comfort in comparing the loss in killed of the small assaulting column of the English at the Redan with the loss of the Whole Federal army in the battle of Bull's Run, and finds that the former was 386, and the latter 480—whence it concludes that either both were " awfal conflicts" alike, or both were " sham battles." In the same way it is sought to irritate and excite ill-feeling against your correspondent by wilfully ignoring the express words of his letter in reference to Bull's Run, in which he distinctly stated that he left it to American journals to de scribe the fighting, and that he only related what he saw with his own eyes. This, too, is done by papers which freely applied the words "cowardice," "disgrace," "infamy," and such opprobrious epi thets to the conduct of the army itself and its officers, and quoted the words of United States " honour ables" narrating their impressions, far stronger than any I used, with evident complacency. These people know in their hearts that I never impeached the courage of those who fought, but that I did endea vour to describe the terror of the flignt and the panic of those who ran. If they succeed in their object I cannot help it, but they may depend upon one thing—that nothing, while I have life, will induce me to suppress what I believe to be the truth, and that all they can do is to add another to the proofs that freedom of speech and thought can be rendered unsafe and dangerous in the land of freedom of speaking and thinking. As if not to be outdone in extravagance, some of the Southern papers are calling out for the expulsion of the Consuls of the European Powers which have not acknowledged the Confederacy, and in the face of the blockade, which will soon be rigid enough, are using the most absurd language as to their might and power, and the power of the " cotton press " over all the world. With the exception of their great success in Missouri the political event; in the border States have been unfavourable to the Confederates ; but the signs of dissension and trouble in the North, on the other hand, are alarming to those who can read the ' signs of the times. The State Democratic Conven tion in Maine has split on the question of peace or war, and a great animosity exists on that very question in larger circles in other States. Kentucky is distracted in her attempts to preserve a strict neutrality and to follow the example of France and England. The answer of the Union men of Western Virginia to the threats of the Congress at Richmond, and to the acts of the Richmond dis• Union party, has been given by the Convention at Wheeling, which has decided on forming a new State, to be called " Kanawha," which shall be created or rejected by the people on the. 24th of October; but meantime the Confederates are likely to interfere. Another attempt will be made to recover Western Virginia, and there is reason to think that General Robert Lee, the best of the Secessionist leaders, has been detached to direct the movement, and is now moving across the mountains from Monterey to Beverley, whence he can threaten Grafton on the junction of the railroad communications from Western Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Mary land. The traces of the authority of the Federal Government in Texas are fast vanishing. The commander of Fort Filmore surrendered with 500 men to the Texans about the end of last month, and fighting, apparently with a result unfavourable to the Federalists, had been going on near Mecilla. However, I have reason to think that endeavours will be made to attack the Secessionists in Texas from a point which they little anticipate, and as to which I am not now at liberty to say anything more. There are many questions unfortunately arising which tend to create embarrassment between the Government of the United States and foreign powers, mainly due to the anomalous position and claims of the former, and, it must be added, to the impropriety and indiscretion of the subjects of foreign Powers who are called upon to follow a strict neutrality. The seizure of the British vessel Adelisa, bound to Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the United States' revenue yacht Henrietta, at Newport, Rhode Island, opens two very nice questions with France and England at one and the same time; for, not only was the vessel seized because she had sailed from a Confederate States' port—Wilmington, in North Carolina—which was not blockaded, but a French subject, M. Bebian, was arrested, subjected, as he complains, to personal indignities, and finally sent as prisoner to Fort Lafayette. I believe the cutter in question was a yacht belonging to the son of the notorious proprietor of a New York paper, and was received into the United States' service in the time of their need on the condition that the son aforesaid should be provided with a commission of a lieutenant in the United States' navy. The seizure of newspapers by the order of the Government, and the attacks on the democratic newspapers by the mobs of the North, the institution of the passport system, the constant surveillance of police, and opening of letters, are all symptoms of the horrors of the civil war in the great republic. The grand mistake which the Americans have made is that they thought great increase o f wea l th and popula tion w were proofs mm e ns e ofr material at e ri solidity a l prosperityand f 0 r 'they mistook good government. They ima g i ne d t h at the growth of cities, the spread of domi n i on, the extension of commerce, were all the h os t ages, a nation could give to fortune, overlooking the principle that the security of life and property, and the freedom of opinion, were the true test of a people's happiness and of a perfect civilisation. As I predicted and apprehended, the defeat has developed mob violence in the North, and outrages on freedom of s peech—tarring, feathering, and destruction of :property for opinion's sake—have taken place in the New England States, which leave on the people a stain of barbarism as large and deep as that which rests on the Slave States for similar brutal and atrocious acts. God defend us from mob law ! AUGUST 23. A month has elapsed since the battle of Bull's ledged to be at the head of a belligerent Power, to accede to the princi pies accepted by the great Powers at the end of the R.'assian war, respecting which Mr. Seward's own views had undergone remarkable modifications since this gre it contest began. There i 3 a tenacity in the Government and people of the United States in maintaining their pretensions, while in their acts they scarcely bear out one of them, which is cuaious and significant. Thus, for example, although. they do not venture to execute their threats and fdaeir captured pirates, they refuse to acknowledge the Confederates as other than re bels, and leave their prisoners to pine away in con finement sooner than ask for an exchange, which would seem to admit t that the Confederates were alien enemies. The autho Titles are all working with energy to bring every pow er to play against the South, and, as they consider it important to prevent communica- tions between the Confederates and their Commis sioners in Europe cEr their friends here, they have re solved henceforth t,o stop and board all the steamers outside the ports, a t id place officers on board of them to look out for suspicious persons. But what can they do when ladies will wad their crinolines with percussion caps, littl carry galvanic batteries in their tender boson s?—when they hug sulph ur i c acid under their arms, and wear stays of copper wire ?—when they pad their petticoats with re volvers, and swell their stocking legs with quinine? Yesterday there was a review of Gen. Anowell's division by Gen. 111 - Tlellan at the other Side of the Potomac. I rode over in the forenoon, and found the troops drawn lip in the meadows which extend from the river tomvards the tete de pont. The sen tries on the Long-b •ridge examined the passes closely. One effect of the rc ;cent orders in relation to passei has been to dimini sh the number of people on the bridge and on the roads to the camps very much ; but there are great; quantities of carts and waggons on the move, and it looks as if the authorities were determined there should be no want of transport. No army in the world has finer horses than those which have been colic ‘cted by the activity and efforts of the Quartermastei . ..General Meigs. Prince Na poleon was much s truck with their superiority. The carts are almost equally good and numerous. There can be no ward of horses for their cavalry, or for remount horses, as long as the attelage is are the as good. But fi ner th an e ith er h orses or c arts men. With the 03x ception of such regime • Kek Mr:which were hastily enlisted in New York, id are not yet provided with uniiorms, no army presents a greater, if any presents an equal, number of tall, robust, stout-limbEd men, in the prime of life. Ido not speak of special crack regi ments, but of the av erage o f th e w h o l e mass , Im perfectly disciplined as th e y necessar il y are , th ese troops would, I am satisfied, inflict a severe repulse on the Confederates if they advanced to the assault of the formidable redoubts, connected by long lines of abatti s and curtains which cover Washington on the south, a n d are rapidly encircling it on th e nor th also. On a rr i v i ng on the field I found the troops already in occupation, drawn up in two lines, and i i s nd sta t ff heir we p re iled in a fr r o ms nt . , lying Do wdeonwnand h behind and d en so e m ra e l 20 or 30 persons, of whom more than two-thirds were soldiers from the camp, abov e , c om p ose d the whole of the spectators. I believe the gallant officer whose modest and truthful report of the battle of Manassas must have secured for him re spect and sympathy in Europe; will soon be relieved from the indignity of such a small command as that to which he has been reduced after having led a great array. He had studied his profession thoroughly, and practically knows the constitution of all th e European armies, has served in Mexico, is a tra velled gentleman,—and yet in his own native city there was to be found a journal which declared he had lost the battle by his personal incompetency, and that he was sitting in his tent drunk and play ing cards while the fight was going on. It is an admirable comment on the way in which these stories are concocted that the General is a water drinker, and never drinks wine' or spirits of any kind. As anillustration of the zeady way in which Americans take to arms, I may add that one of his aides, Majpr Clarence Brown (nephew of the ex iii'ernber for SOuth Lancashi re ), was an d is a private in the New York 7th Regiment of State Militia, and that he is now discharging the duty of an aide de-camp with zeal and alacrity, although but a few months ago he was engaged in the business of a counting-house. After noon General M'Clellan, escorted by a rough-but-ready looking body of United States troopers, and attended by a small staff, appeared in the distance, preceded by an open carriage, in which sat the President and Mr. Se ward. The troops stood to their arms, forming in line with considerable precision. As the President drove down the ranks the men presented arms and the bands struck up various tunes—" Hail Colum bia," " The Star-spangled Banner," " The Red White, and Blue" (which seems cosmopolitan), and others unknown, and the colours, which are gene rally large and handsome, and show very well, were lowered. The solitary carriage then took up a posi tiOn in the front of the centre, and the division marched past-8 regiments of various strength hav ing probably 5,500 men on the field. The marching was generally very good. The men were silent iu the ranks, and there was no cheering. With some ex ceptions, there were many reasons to be satisfied with the appearance of the division. The President, who did not remainan hour on the field, drove back over the London-bridge. The troops marched back and reformed in line, and finally, after the review, Gen. M'Clellan rode away into Washington. He has examined nearly all the regiments under his command, and is exerting himself greatly to get the army into condition ; but there will be no movement for some weeks to come on his part; there can be no good gained by it, unless the Southerners are forced by their exigencies to make some decisive demon stration. They have got a large force, and are threatening the Upper Potomac forces from Leech ing, but there is no importance to be attached to it. These dispositions are intended, most proba bly, to amuse their men, whom we understand to be rather discontented now and then. The weather has become cooler, and is not unfavourable to field operations, but the climate here is not wholesome at this time of year, and fevers are abundant. THE HARVEST. CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 7.—A1l kinds of grain about here have been gathered in excellent condition. Reports concerning the wheat crop are still favour able as to quality ; the quantity will not be an. average. Some excellent malting barley is antici pated. Oats are a good crop. Beans and peas vary, but in the more suitable soils an average will be obtained. DERBY, Sept. 6.—ln many parts of Derbyshire the wheat harvest is almost completed, but in the Peak. in the neighbourhood of Bakewell and Bux ton, there remains a good quantity yet to be secured. All reports agree that this year's produce of wheat will scarcely prove an average, but the quality is very good, and at present crops have been gathered in splendid condition. Barley isprolific in someparts, others not so satisfactory, but upon the whole there will be an average yield. Oats are good in quality and quantity. In some places beans are satisfactory. Turnips have greatly benefited by the recent rains. Potatoes are rather improving than otherwise. GRANTHAM, Sept. 7.—Very little grain left in the fields about here, and wheat has been gathered in splendid condition. Barley is a fair yield, and the quality good. Oats are an abundant crop. Pas tures are greatly refreshed by the recent rains. LEICESTER, Sept. 7.—An accurate idea may now be given as to the yield of wheat, the greater part of it being secured. Reports agree that the produce is a little below the average, but all agree that the quality is splendid. Barley is a good crop, both as respects colour and soundness. Oats are most satis factory. Beans vary. Peas a fair crop. LINCOLN, Sept. 7.—Farmers have been very busy during the past week, and the bulk of the wheat harvest is drawing to a close. The yield is scarcely an average, but some amends will be made by the quality, which is better than it has been for years past. In the neighbourhood of Holbeach wheat is rather a scanty yield, but the quality very good; and other sorts of grain are more abundant. All the corn has been secured about Lincoln in first-rate condition. The continued fine weather has checked the disease in potatoes. About Market Rasen the wheat crop is nearly secured, and the quality is very fine. Barley is of excellent quality. Oats are a prolific yield, and ofgood quality. Beans generally speaking are well podded ; in some lands however, the plant is thin. Turnips look better. Mangold must be an indifferent crop. NORTHAMPTON, Sept. 7.—The harvest is about completed here, the bulk of the crops being gathered in excellent condition. Wheat will scarcely be an average, but the quality is very superior. Barley has done well, the quantity and quality being good. Oats will be above the average. The continued dry weather has very much improved potatoes. Turnips however still want moisture. NOTTINGHAM, Sept. 7.—Harvest work is rapidly drawing to a close in this district, and a fair con clusion as to the result may be arrived at. Wheat is very nearly an average, and the quali ty is very superior; in several cases the grain has been thrashed out, and produced splendid flour. Barley is nearly all housed and proves most satisfactory. Oats are an abundant crop, and the quality very first-rate. Beans vary, but peas are an average. Turnips have greatly improved by the showers of rain that have fallen during the last few days. Potatoes are looking W eld he i a s t be i l s ow abaonut ave rage, se cured e rather better than some we e k s ago. PETERBOROUGH, here , and although Sept . the yield rage, the whole ha s b een gathered in splendid con dition, and the quality is better than we have had for many seasons past. Barley has been gathered under favourable circumstances, and is a very f a i r crop. O a t s an d b eans vary. urnips are not very satisfactory. Potatoes - are a little improved. READING, Sept. 7.—We have now to report almost a total clearance of the wheat crop in this district, and it may be concluded, from information given by agriculturists from all parts o f th e coun t y, that the yield will be about 21 quarters to the acre, and therefore such as will fall short of an average. The barley crop is spoken of as being, on the whole, large, and the quality good. The quality of oats is stated to be satisfactory. STAMFORD, Sept. 7.—Most of the crops are now gathered, the weather of the past week still being favourable for harvest work. Wheat and barley have turned out much better than was expected; the quality of the former is excellent, and the yield of the latter quite an average. Oats and beans satisfactory. Peas vary. SUNDERLAND, Sept. 7.—Since our last report a considerable quantity of g ra i n h a s been secure d rep in good condition. Upon the w hole a favourab le ort may be given of the crops. Tu rnip s are sti ll suffer ing for lack of moisture. With f e w days more fine WISBECH, Sept,7.—a e will be concluded. weather the harvest about quality, rather deficient Wheat is very good in qt!Y , Beans a fair in yield. Oats are abundant. parts of this crop, 7. —ln man y par county YORK, Sept. drawing to a close and the crops operations are in 9 crops have be Although the ears the w been gathered very goo d condition. heat crop lies thin were very fine and TA on the ground plump ; notwith standing, the average will not be obtained. B l may be pronounced about an average crop. O a t s have turned out remarkably ll I ar ey Nv e . ti many places Potatoes are diseased. Mangold and turnips way'A rain. lEEE