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4 THE ORIENTAL HC )TELS COMPANY (Li inited' Liability of Inecrporated each undcr the Con loan! es' Act:. 15i2, by w hi c h th e of his S,'ares. Shareholder . st :icily limited tothe amount Capital £ 5 1 ),00O3 in 25,0 00 Shares of £lO each. (With First Issue :12,500 power Stoh increase to - 0 •One Million 84 6er li ng.) ares, when for fm portion IV.,a be reserved Deposit £' Ty r Share on appli cation. and £'l on allotment. Calls not to exceed £2 per Share, . with an interval of not less three months between each call. DIRECT oRs . Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.8.,_ Chairman, late Lien+,enant- Governor of Bengal. Colonel Auderton, C. 8., Dire Aor of the Eastern Wmgal Rail way Company. Geore Constable, Esq., Fi' .in of Henderson and Co; ,stable, Cannon- , treet, E.C. Si, Frederick Currie Bay.t . 3retaber of the co urle'd of India. Colonel French, Chairuaan of the B mibay acid • Baroda Rail way Company. Colonel _Rolland, Director of the Agra an.' d United Service Bank. John ••ti - ftvart, Req., Director of the re: o '.rine Insurance Com pany. John r.obert Thomson, Req., Cr o 1 • -- man of the London and Sout h African Ba s k. James Henry Young, Esq.. 18' ce of the Bengal Civil Service. Ar ,DITORS. • T. R. Wa lker, E ,3 cl . 21. Anover-Equare, and II A Shareholder, - fp be ele ..ited at the First General Meeting. A .ERS IN LONDON. Wrcet, i'l • C . The Agra and Unit,.ißld Service B an k (Li m ited) , 27 , C annon - The London a .nd County Bank HE,nover4quare, W. RANKERS IN INDIA. The .Agra and Uni ed Service Bank (Limited). - -- SOLICITORS. Messrs 1:" f P , ons, Johnson, and - Upton, 20, Aust'n-'riars, E.O B R aKEn. Fran c.is Burnand, Esq., 78, Lombardlltreet, and 13 and 14 County-ehltrAers, Cornhill, E.C. SEcwrzTART (pro tern.) Mac'aonald Yates, Esq. 'Temporary Offices :--36, Cannon-street, and 5, Para , . meat-street, Westminster. The deficiency* of Hotel accommodatio and other plat's in the East to which Europeans in n India,now China,resori in large and annually increasing numbers , is a subject of general comr,l dnt ; and it is evident river t sttheeamdeevres,loapnmdebnyt ot the mean A of transit by ocean and railways, 'ehi c h has been in r a pid progress now for some .ye ears, muA , mperfectly fulfil all i' s i mportant objects, so far Europev a intercourse with the East is cone riled, until this want, a adequately supplied. In Eng 7 ,and, and on the c(ntinent of Europe, it is now an asce•tair,ed be fact that the joi n t- stock system may most sue cesefulrf appl , ed to the establishment of Hotels of the first of ,es. If this be so where good private Hotels before existe d in la rge num b ers, there seet.ns no reason to d ou bt that an equal degree of commercial success is attainable by the application ot caal, o the satins system. to the same obj ect, in countries whereuponavrh the ins private great Hotels not exist. In Calcutta a jol:.-it-stoc;it company has lately purchased and undertaken the management of an Hotel, and the pro spects of the enter. rise, as a commercial speculation, may be inte , red from the very high prem.um at which their shares are quoted in the, Calcutta market, see "Times" Ju'y 17, the "Englishman's Weekly Mail" of June 5,1863, and "Allen's Indian Mail," viz., .£:.:5 paid, present value, .£42i ex div., ' equal to 70 per cent. premium, and the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. for the hall-year end 4 .ng 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent; per annum. Bombay offers a wide field for the establisl per of an Hotel of n, first class character. The early comp' ration of vast lines ‘..if railway converging in the Idly of 1 kambay. and the mor:e freuent steam communica tion betw ten that pert and Europe which will Boon talt. Place, mv,st very much increr.se the demand for such accom rnodatio, 1 The same may lie said of Madras. It Con under these eircu', nstances that the Oriental Hotels H'Pa Ay (Limited) is established, in the confident belief that the a r , plication of E urouear, capital to India in this form will Vtot b e les s prof i table than 'useful. It is proposed, i n th e fi rs t cint t ace, to s u p p l y the 'Argent requirements of B o mb a y an d de Galle. Th ere are equally important places which Fill naturally engage the early attention of the Company, !inch for example as M adras, Singapore, and Kurrachee ; not to 7 0 p r e a e k f ot In m d a ia ny very important railway stations in le in- Wilereat ter4 , wbe're there are now no Hotels at all, and . a com parr.tively small outlay, there is a large field to Arofitab e °pet a lions. The larger class of the Compa ny ' s H otels will afford all the conve niences of the best European Hotels, adapted to the 'climate, and to the habits of those for whom they are in tended; whilst, in even the smallest class, the health and co mfort of the inmates will be carefully studied. . It is intended toconstitute local committees of management Irteach Presidemiy where Hotels may be established. ' .. n the evert of two-thirds of the first issue of shares not being subscribed for, no allotment will take place, and the ' l .ePosits will be ret urned to the subacrib,rs, without deduc tion. It is Pro posed upon the • elared. capital as Paid up, until the first dividend is de to pay to shareholders 5 per cent, interest talon ap 11 Prorxtusea and forms of application for shares may be P Cation to the Bankers the Brolier, or the Secre , FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. ToGt,he. Directors of the To be retained by the Bankers. THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited). you will 'e ll Oriental Hotels Company (Limited). x amelpnien,—Having paid to the Bankers of the above ct To t a t ,, e i fl , to pony the sum of £ I hereby request that ot me I agree to ac' shares in the said Company ; and be all ' ept such Flares, or any s miller number that may me, and to become a Member of the Company, agTee to Rember;T n i° r r ise You to ulace my name on the Reg - is a t r_ol ~tainen tu be tla b-° e 3eur t b of i the shares . t? be allott e ed a t l o at n i i a , nd e ns con- Y ail the conditions and r g ..rhorandum and Articles of Association . of the "rtManv i n 1 862.' , ' ' Manner provided by "The Companies Act, Pet share 0,-, I undertake to pay the balance (1.,..` any) of the Deposit of £2 notice of a' d ays after the shares allotted, to me within ten ou . ca ncel th,, d otment, and in ap e d ' to thereof, 1 autborise y ou to 13 5 f orfei ,- allotment, and I agr,e that the Deposit paid sh all 1 3 4t e ‘e til l _o the Company. is day . __ , 1863. Name in full Firm (if any) Business or Profes.ion Place of Business Residence .. C itvo ß t r el 3 n ßATlON of the TERCENTENARY of Th - .RTII of SR A.KS PE ARE, at Stratford-upon- N. C rl yr --'' T ercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert hag: sr,-4,,n1,11t0, Part, K C. 8.. is Chairman) are now receiv ddermi 4 0co - - '''' CR IPTION' 3 , and they may also be paid to the mo unt of the Tercentenary Committee. at the Stourbridge StratStra t i titer or Warwick and Leamington Banks, i ord.. / ,,,,, _ Nay F n Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Sniitlg-V, 'Warwick ; or their 1 ondon agents, Messrs. Glyn a and co Mraisrs Ilanbarys and Co., or Messrs. --- "a Co, ' I ----...„ , ankers, ,ondon. Name. School. Monu mental Memorial. General Fund for opening gardens and cel-bration of Festival. 41 . 1 ,e RiQ ht Hor,. Lord Leigh 4- P. Plower. Esq.. Mayor ...... • : Sir It. N. • . Bamilton,, ,s tart,C.8...... Q. Granville.... C. IL Bracebridg-e.... E. W. 0. H. Hobbes. ....... 8unt.......... 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He was seen marching through the streets at the head of a mob, who halted opposite the houses of those whose loyal displays displeased them, and, in obedience to nega tive but well-understood diitctions from him, dis charged volleys of stones at the windows. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. site r an e d e w h g Ewell. As it was, the whole operation wa s timed Ewell against Wi nc h es t e r was swift, silent, and oievsrteenwmheoffiveeehcdtt bya t k o e a ms s utiethzoiuinrigeshrpyit.rhaetii,lhoaner gmferaeorn:dhGoc Genera successful; the occupation of the three great gape in the mountain range was timed to a minute. In vain did General Hooker start off a body of his cavalry to race for the possession of the northernmost road through S7icker's Gap. They found. General Fitz hugh Lee already in possession, and behind him one of the finest infantry divisions in the Confede rate army. In vain did the Foderal cavalry and General Pleasanton race for possession of the next, or Ashby's Gap, supported by a large hp . 3.3 , of artil lery and infantry. There they found Gen. Stuart and his cavalry thrown out in advance of the Gap at a little place called Aldie, and here, on the 17th and 19th inst., there were fierce skirmishes between the antagonists, in the latter of which a Prussian officer named Major von Borcke, the chief of Gene ral Stuart's staff, wall known to and much esteemed by all English visitors who have recently repaired to General Lee's army, received a severe wound from a bullet in his neck, which passed between the trachea and [esophagus and lodged in the muscles at the back of the neck. It cannot be denied that the wound is a very serious one, but up to the 21st inst., although the bullet could not be found, the Major's condition was favourable and no bad symp toms had arisen ; but on the 21st the Federals had advanced as far as a small town called Upper ville, in which the Major was lying, and there is much reason to fear that he was yesterday taken prisoner. It will be understood that Upperville and Aldie are considerably in advance of—that is to say, to the east—of Ashby's Gap, and that General Lee is only too anxious to draw the Federals on into the gap. For this purpose General Stuart has been unsupported by any infantry, and has constantly fallen back to draw his opponents on, In this there is little chauce of his being successful, as the gap could be held by one brigade against the whole of General Hooker's army. Thirdly, at Chester's Gap the road which traverses the mountain near Front Royal has been seized by General A. P. Hill, and with these three gaps in his possession, General Lee can hold them if he pleases with insignificant bodies of men, and behind the screen of the moun- tains can play any pranks that he likes, unseen by and beyond the reach of the baffied General Hooker. Although from my past experience of the long delay which intervenes between the expedition of each of my letters and its arrival in England there is little encouragement to report facts of which some knowledge, though perhaps an imperfect one, will have reached your readers at least a month before their perusal of this letter, and though I am consequently thrown back upon mere comments upon those facts, it may perhaps be not without interest to them to learn the exact particulars of the attack of " Stonewall" Jackson's veterans, under the leadership of the one-legged General Ewell (his other leg having been left on the field at the second battle of Manassas), upon the little city of Winchester. Frequently during these last few months has the cry of agony extorted by General and Mrs. Milroy from the unhappy resi dents of Winchester reached General Lee's ears, but something has always intervened to distract his attention, and to prolong the tenure of General Milroy's sway. At length, when the time for medi tating an advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania seemed at hand, Gen. Lee resolved to anticipate the movement of his entire force by launching General Ewell and his corps swiftly and suddenly against Gen. Milroy. It the Federals lacked any further ideace how odious and abhorred is their presence in the eyes of the Virginians, let them seek it in the circumstances which accompanied the advance of Gen. Ewell. From Fredericksburg to Winchester, a distance of more than 90 miles—through many hamlets and villages, and through a country which, for Northern Virginia, may be called densely peo pied—G2n. Ewell and his 25,000 men silently made their way, and throughout that whole distance neither man nor woman was found to carry to Gan. Milroy warning that Nemesis was at hand. The first :'.ntimation that reached the Yankee tyrant of his enemy's approach was the fire of Gen. Ewell's advanced guard upon the pickets of the Federals. It will be believed that it was not long before the Yankees, finding themselves in presence of a largely superior force, fell back into the town, and if Win chester, instead of being on Virginian, had been on Pennsylvanian soil, the matter would probably have ended upon the first day—the 13th inst.—by Gen. Ewell's desiring the women and non-combatants to pass out through his lines, and shelling the town until Gen. Milroy and his men surrendered. As it was, Gen. Ewell, wishing to get his enemy out of the town, left open for him a bolt hole into two large forts which overhang the town, and thither, at a very early hour in the morning of Sunday, the 14th of June, Gen. Milroy and his army, perhaps 7,000 strong, hastily repaired. Upon the previous day it was intimated to General Ewell that unless Milroy was permitted to march out with all his stores, cannon, and ammunition, he had resolved that he would burn the town. Learning this General Ewell made known that if the torch was applied he would burn up all the Federals by driving them back into the flames, and that if any of them escaped he would hang them on the spot. Gaining nothing by this motion, General Milroy earnestly addressed himself to the consideration of the best method open to him for escaping, and, doubtless, although the exact details of his escape are un known, he displayed mach ingenuity in rescuing his neck from the halter. It is believed that in civilian dress, and accompanied by some 2,000 men, he struck out of the. town by an old country road in the direction of Charlestown, a place which lies on the road from Winchester to Harper's Ferry, and which gained some celebrity a few years ago as having witnessed the trial and execution of the famous John Brown. It was at a very early hour on Monday morning that General Milroy's escape was made, and there is little doubt that the com mand of General Johnson, to whose care was com mitted the guardianship of the road in question, was partially taken by surprise, and was broken through before Milroy and his companions could be stopped. Be this as it may, it is certain that Mil roy escaped, nor is it less certain that if he had been taken alive he would have forfeited hi s lif e, having, like General Butler and others, been put hors le roi by President Davis's proclamation. To return to Sunday, the day preceding the escape of General Milroy : I have mentioned that most of the Federals in the town betook them selves to the two forts which impend over it, and thence they threw shells actively against the Con federates during the whole morning. A little after midday the Confederates, having planted their guns upon a hill, which was pointed out to me last Octo ber by Colonel Wolseley as dangerously command ing the two forts, opened fire briskly upon them, and under cover of their fire the Louisiana brigade advanced to storm. Dashing gallantly forward with the fire and elan specially charac teristic of the soldier of Louisiana, they carried two out of the three bastions without s ustaining mare than a trifling loss, an 3 drove the Federals headlong out of tha forts. Of these fugitives 3,000 w ere t a k en ptiscners about b four no m l i e l s e s s from n Winchester, on the road to INlartins urg, wh ere th e y were intercepted by a Etr‘.ng Confederate force force commanded (if I mistake not) 01f,:i0armtioursehuwtegreitesealpf-. Rhodes, and from 1,2000dt0 turgid in the neighbourh o more than 100 officers being included among the prisoners. Thirty pi e ces of artillery, betw een 1 00 and 200 waggons , large commissary, clothi ng , and medical stems, and about 400 horses) the rest hay. aiding gds the of ir e ; been pressed into the service of a flight of the terrified Yankees) fell into the the Confederates in the town of Winchesier—a weighty loss according to the computation of any STAMPED ....sd. other Government on earth save that - which at Washington lavishes its millions in vain, and re joices at disasters such as those at Chaneelloreville end Winchester as enabli ng it to issue fresh con tracts to a few blood -bucking contractors, who clameer lendly and lead on a blinded and mis guided populace to clamour not less loudly for a continuance of this hopeless and miserable war. ;'he whole loss of the Confederates', in killed. .vounded, and missing, was less than 200. It will be believed that the news a ; the surprise of winches , er ari d th e capture of about 5,000 out of ameral Milroy's entire force of 7,000, e r e d o f nil his stores, waggons, awl artillery, although dis ouised behind unusually magnificent mendacity, was a startling blow to the North, and, above all, to the hL , sterical Governor of Pennsylvania. General Hooker, moreover, appears for severe' past days to nave been far from comfortable, and to have been in profound ignorance where to find General Lee and his army. Simultaneously across the Potomac, fixing his head-quarters at B , oones_- borough, in Maryland, advanced Gen. Ewell, ena there for some days has he squatted, receiving large supplies of horses' forage and all manner of provi sions from Generals Jenkins end Imboden, who have not been idle since they arrived in Pennsyl vania and Maryland. It is known here that consi derable damage has been done to the Baltimore end Ohio Railroad by Gen. Imboden, which, for about the tenth time since the commencement of this war, has been torn up, and has had its bridges destroyed. It is understood that Gen. Imboden destroyed a large wrought iron bridge near Cumberland, which it had previously been difficult to damage, by firing round shot out of a 6-pounder gun at the girders and props, and breaking down the whole fabric into the stream (called, if I mistake not, Patterson's Creek) which the bridge used to span. How far the active Confederate cavalry may have penetrated into Pennsylvania will have reached your readers, probably not without exaggeration, long before the arrival of this letter. But it is evident from the Northern papers, which, in our present position, reach us abundantly within two days of their publi cation in Washington, that the expectations gene rally entertained that Gen. Lee's irruption into Pennsylvannia will be a brief agony —a sort of mau cais quart d'heure, which has to be met and sur mounted by terrified militiaman—is likely to prove a delusion. Nothing can at this moment exceed the deliberation of Gen. Lee's movements. It was necessary after the army left Culpepper to lose no time in seizing the gaps which I have mentioned above; and during the march of the 16th, 17th, and 18th inst. the men, driven forward with all possible speed, suffered terribly by reason of the intense heat. On the 17th the glass stood all day at 92 deg. On the 18th, from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m., it touched 98. It will be imagined that dozens of men fainted and fell, smitten down by the sun, and were by their comrades, according to the never-failing rule in all armies, instantly reported dead. Although there were undoubtedly many such sunstrokes, I have not as yet heard of any that terminated fatally. But if the Confederates during those three trying days suffered grievously, it is evident from the accounts in the Northern papers that the sufferings of their enemy were far more severe. Marching, as were the Confederates, along the Blue Ridge, they found abundant springs of cool and excellent limestone water, whereas the march of the Federals was over cue of the thirstiest plains in Virginia—a district which last year retarded the foot cavalry of Stonewall Jackson for several days, and delayed the discomfiture of the bombastic Gen. Pope, and which, upon the 17th and 18th instant, doubtless took ample toll from the host of Gen. Hooker. It is in such marches that the reckless wastefulnees of the Federal soldier, springing from the faciiity with which he gets new clothes, a new knapsack, and canteen, whenever he calls for them, is abundantly portrayed, How many thousand dollars worth of clothing, blankets, overcoats, and oil-cloths strewed the plain on such a day as the 17th of June it is not necessary to compute, but enough in all probability to have enabled such an Economist as Frederick the Great to support one or two months of war. 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The 41st report of the Inspectors-General of pri sons (Mr. J. Corry Connellan and Mr. John Len taigne), which has just been issued, contains some interesting statistics. Although on the Ist of Janu ary, 1863, the number of prisoners of all classes exceeded those in charge on the corresponding days of the four years imn..ediately preceding, they did not amount to one-third of the aggregate number confined on the Ist of January, 1851. In 1862 there was an increase over 1861 of 2,344 male and 365 female prisoners. The daily average number of prisoners presents an increase of 252 males and 12 females. The convictions of 1862 exceeded those of 1861 by 1,818, being 27,266 against 25,448. While the con victions of females at both assizes and quarter ses sions increased by only 8 per cent., the conviction of males increased 17 per cent.; of the males 22 per cent. had undergone more than one imprison ment, and of the females 37 per cent. had been more than once committed to gaol. Sentences of death and penal servitude were passed in 1861 upon 353, and in 1862 upon 595. Of six sentenced to death two had their sentences commuted. More than a third or those who endured the punishment of penal servitude were sentenced for three years and under. Only three were sentenced for life. Four-fifths of the whole number sentenced to terms of imprisonmene were for periods not exceeding a month, affording but an average duration of detention for each prisoner of 11 days and seven hours. The religious professions of pri soners were found to be nearly what they had been the previous year—that is, Church Pretestants, 10.39 per cent. ; Presbyterians, 2.61 per cent. ; Roman Catholics, 83 . 3 per cent. ; " not ascer tained," 0.7 per cent. The gaols have been generally healthy, and the inmates free from contagious disease. The total expenditure on gaols in 1861 was £77,714, and in 1862, £84,229. The profit on works reduced these amounts about £2,500 in the former year, and about £3,000 in the latter. The average cost per annum of each prisoner was £26 18s. 61c1.—rather less than the previous year, the difference being caused by the increase in the number of prisoners. The inspectors state that every one of the abuses with regard to the treatment of lunatics detailed in their last report is still in force. They are still brought to gaols tied down with ropes on cars, and among the numbers committed from Union work houses sometimes very distressing cases occur. The prosecution for slander against Mr. John Rea by Mr. Lytle, late mayor of Belfast, commenced . on Saturday, Mr. Rea pleaded his own cause, and he began by objecting to the judge, Mr. Justice Hayes, as disqualified for trying the case, in conse quence of something which he did as Solicitor- General years ago. Mr. Brewster, Q C., protested against the course adopted by- Mr. Rea, and the judge disallowed the objection. The case is still pro ceeding, and will probably last for several days. A very remarkable libel case was tried at Nenagh last week before Baron Hughes and a special jury. The action was brought by Mr. Spring Rice, to recover damages for an alleged libel published in the Limerick Reporter by the Rev. Thomas Ryan, P.P. It appeared in the form of a letter signed " One of the People." It stated that an investi. gation had been held at Mr. Rice's house, when the following astounding particulars came out :—A threatening letter had been found on his premises warning him to prepare for death in consequence of evicting a family. He sent for the police, and seemed greatly alarmed. But it was stated in the libel that the letter was written to Mr. Rice, at his own instigation, by Bridget Dunne, his parlourmaid. It was to repel this foul charge the action was brought. The maid was produced on the trial, and deposed that she did write the letter under her master's direction, as stated in the libel, and also a letter to herself, as if from a lover in Kilkee. The latter was intended to cor roborate a statement which he desired her to make the family back t o Kilk ee. Mr. Rice was —that she wrote the first i n th e hope of fright eexn examined, and positively contradicted her evidence He was corroborated by Mrs. Rice. Baron Hughes charged the jury to the follow ing effect:—" The Rev. Mr. Ryan had undertaken to satisfy 12 gentlemen upon their oaths that the charge he preferred against Mr. Spring Rice, by his letter of the 19th of July, 1862, was true. What evidence had been given to establish his jus tification ? None, in point of fact, with one ex ception ; and yet they were asked by defendant's counsel to affirm the truth of the charges made against Mr. Rice upon the sole evidence of Bridget Dunne. Her own counsel were obliged to admit that she was a clever and an artful girl. She was admittedly the author and composer of those docu ments, which the jury could take into their box and most carefully consider. The first was a threatening letter, the second a love-letter, pur porting to have been written from Kilkee, and the third a confession, It would be the duty of the jury to look into the contents of these documents, ahannerddecfaroponmascidittehyre, demeanour se say, from o f the dissimilarity of the handwriting in the l ove -l etter from ,the other papers wr i tten by this girl. Th ey wou ld f orm t h e i r own op i n i on of da been examined during the trial, where the truth lay. His lordship added, in reference to the ques tion of accountm h that while the jury would take into serious natur e of the libel, they would also b ear a g a te n whattthe had witnesses taken wii plc l had e d , c a in mind th a t th e d e f en d an t was only a pa l i s h priest, an d the incomes of parish priests wer e usually small." The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £2O d p, thetam a s g a e m s , e an a 6 1 3 i 6 z d e B . cpohs Philip H ayes was tried be foreanuliralrry. J l u B s 6 t 3 i c . e m O r B s r o i n e e n s for , p is a resident magis trate who i ooting at Mr. Gore 2d of Jones, with intent to murder s of long standing, detailed him,he coinrcuthmest of the case, and identified the prisoner as one of two men whom he saw behind a ditch when a gun wa s fired at him while riding along the road from Thurles. He immediately pulled up and said, " You scoundrels! I know you, and I'll m a k e Sou pay for this." The men then ran away through u the fields, and he rode after them through a lane, which ended in a bog. He was obliged to return, and they escaped. Two holes, as if made by a bullet, were visible in the loose Inverness cape which he wore at the time. The witness was severely cross examined by Mr. Curtis. Other evidence having been given, the jury retired. They were locked up all night, and discharged the next day, not being able to agree to a verdict. At the Mayo Assizes Sohn M'Gregor was con victed of having acted as a ringleader in the riots which occurred in the town of Castlebar on the evening of the 10th of March, during the rejoicings THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. The New York papers publish full details respect ing the siege and surrender of Vicksburg. The first attempt to take the town was made on the 18th of May, 1862, when Admiral Farragut put in an ap pearance before it with the Federal fleet, imme diately after his capture of New Orleans. The Confederates, who had foreseen their danger, had made haste to fortify themselves. Their position was then so superior to Admiral Farragut's power for assault that this attempt failed. The next attempt was made in the following December, when, Gen. Grant having reached Yallabusha, on his way to central Mississippi, sent General Sherman with a large corps to operate against Vicksburg. After some desperate fighting, the Federal forces were driven back with considerable loss. The third effort to reduce Vicksburg commenced in Febru ary of the present year. General Grant, having withdrawn his army from the int er i or, l anded opposite the place, with Young's Point as his depOt of supplies. A number of strategic movements ensued, most involving desperate conflicts and heavy losses, until at last, on the 18th of May, just a year after the place had been first menaced, it was regularly approached, and the Federal lines drawn round it. Admiral Porter, with his fleet, guarded the river way, while land works were constructed in opposition to the fortified positions of the Con federates. On the 19th of that month one of the besieging brigades assaulted what was thought to be the weakest part of the enemy's line of defence. The place, however, proved to be immensely strong, and the division was driven from the works with frightful loss. Another attack followed on the 22nd. After a daring attempt to get possession of the works, the Federals were obliged to fall back with 3,000 of their men hors de combat. T he N orthern generals considered after this terrible lesson that the city could not be stormed; it was, therefore, determined to reduce the position bysiege and parallel works, a course which, though ultimately successful, cost the Federals a large expenditure of men and firstd s gi b n l g ow vinhuil up money. Day after day —fort y -six in a ll --- did the siege proceed, one-half of the m forceine w digging the other protected. The on the 25th of June, and, after a san gu i nary en gagement, the Federals obtained partial a d vantages . They continue d their mining until the place surren dered. This description of their works had advanced so far when the place fell into their hands that they could have blown up a large portion of it. The m i n i n g was oral; discontinued a short time before the surrender, w hen the Federals captured despatches which convinced them that famine would soon effect the object they had in view. When they discovered the extremity to which the brave garrison end the inhabitants were reduced, they relaxed their efforts, a sufficient demonstration being kept upon the lines by the Federal riflemen, end an occasional can nonade. Their sea force also had a splendid com mand of the doomed city, with long-range guns. Some 100 pounder Parrott guns, with a range of three and a half miles, were very serviceable, the flight of shells being tolerably accurate at that distance. On the Ist of July the Confsderate fire slackened considerably. There was a complete lull during the day, and as night set in only a ran dom discharge from the front batteries. Notwith standing that despair at their position was then spreading itself in the ranks of the garrison, they boldly repelled e very attempt which was ma d e to capture either of their positions, besides keeping themselves busily employed in running countersaps to the mining of the besiegers. Perhaps the only noticeable feature of the last day of siege was the AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Sunday. The royal mail steamer Chine, Captain Ander son, from New York on the 16th inst. (havirg been detained from the 15th fir despatches), arrived here about five o'clock this afternoon. The annourcment of the fall of Port Hudson is given in the following telegram, published in the Richmond Examiner of the 14th inst.:-- " Mobile, July 13. "To General Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General " The New Orleans Era of the 10th announces the unconditional surrender of Port Hudson at seven o'clock on the 9th inst. " GEORGE G. GARDNER, Chief of the Staff." The Richmond Examiner also publishes the fol lowing official despatches concerning the Federal attack on Charleston : " Charleston, July 10. "To General Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector. General. " At dark, on the 10th, the enemy obtained pos session of the southern portion of Morris Island. Four monitors engaged battery Wagner and the battery atCumming's Point all day without damage or casualties; but the losses in opposing the enemy were severe-300 were killed and wounded, includ ing 16 officers. The enemy's loss is evidently heavy. " G. T. BEAUREGARD." "To General Cooper.—July 10, 11.30 p.m. " The enemy has a threatening force on the lower front of James Island along the stores, an attempt was made to destroy the Savannah Railroad bridge, but was foiled, with the loss of one steamboat. " G. T. BEAUREGARD.'' "To General Cooper.—July 13. " There is nothing new since yesterday. The enemy is engaged in establishing long-range guns in the middle of Morris Island, being aided by five monitors. Three wooden gunboats are firing on bat teries Wagner and Gregg, on the north end of Morris Island. " G. T. BEAUREGARD." The gunboat Union arrived at Fortress Monroe on the 14th inst. from Charleston, reports all of Morris Island captured except Fort Wagner. The enemy's loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners is between 700 and 800. The attack commenced on the 10th. The Union left on the afte rnoon o f t h e 13th, at which time the siege of Fort W agner was progressing, with every prospect of a speedy cap ture. Five monitors were engaged. A special despatch, dated July 14, morning, from St. James's College, four miles from Williamsport, thus announces the retreat of General Lee's army across the Potomac. It says:— " The enemy has crossed the river. This morn ing a scout came in and reported that the enemy had been crossing their troops all night. This statement was not fully credited, but General Sedg wick's corps, on the centre, was ordered to push forward. It advanced to the line of the enemy's works, and found them empty. At five a.m. Gen, Kilpatrick, anticipating his orders by two hours, moved out on the enemy's left, and found their strong position, which commanded the Williams port road, evacuated. There has not been a gun fired. The wily rebel chieftain has crept stealthily away from under our very noses while we were dig ging ditches for aline of defence. The rebels crossed on a bridge of flat boats, which they have built since they arrived at Williamsport. High water did not affect their proceedings. Their line of defence served them the excellent purposes of concealing their movement until they could safely retreat. THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL LEE, NEAR BERRYVILLE, CLARKE COUNTY, VIR GINIA, June 22. Upon no previous occasion since the command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was assumed (rather more than a year ago) by General Lee has any one of his campaigns opened with fairer promise or more encouraging augury than the present. We have seen on a recent occasion the initiative taken by Gen. Hooker, and the ignominy which awaited his overgrown army and its imbecile commander in the tangled wilderness and matted thickets around Chancellorsville, We shall now be called upon critically to observe the conduct of an army acting in its turn on the offensive, and with infinitely inferior wealth of resource than was com manded by Gen. Hooker, but which has the advan tage of being under the guidance of one of the ablest existing masters of the art of war. It is only by slow and gradual degrees that the reciprocity of confidence now subsisting between Gen. Lee and his army has grown to its full and perfect stature. In one respect the unobtrusive humility and want of demonstrativeness which are so winning and engaging to those who have the happiness of enjoy ing the intimacy of Gen. Lee are disadvantages in connexion with his command of a volunteer army, in which emotion rather than discipline, heart rather than habit, is the guide of action. But it cannot have escaped close observers that the affection and admi ration of his followers for Gen. Lee culminated at that battle of Chancellorsville, and that much of the enthusiasm which had so long clustered around General Jackson did not sink with him into the tomb, but subsequently descended to the man whose guiding brain had so often launched the avalanche of " Stonewall" Jackson against their common foe, and who brought into the field an unselfishness as lofty and a purity as spotless as those of General Jackson himself. It needed not the enthusiastic cheers which greeted Gen. Lee as he rode at Chan cellorsville along the lines of his victorious troops on the &fret noon of May 3 to proclaim to those who have watched them closely that they wear him in their heart of hearts. Similarly, though at dif ferent moments during the last 10 or 12 days the strategy has seemed inexplicable to empirical tacti tians, such is the confidence universally reposed in Gee. Lee that not a doubt has been expressed, not a misgiving indulged. This cenfidence has been, as I write, repaid,by the solution of all misapprehen sions, and it is now patent, even to the moles at Washington, that Gen. Lee has transplanted his whole army from Fredericksburg to the Maryland line, and has turned the flank or Gen. Hooker with out any penetration of his design by the latter, or without any steps having been taken to molest or harass the long line of the Confederates. Right across the beautiful State of Virginia, starting from the Potomac at Harper's Ferry, and running in a soutti-westerly dirEttion to the southern limit of the State, stretches the blue ridge of moun tains, not dissimilar in height or appearance to Snowdon or Helvellyn, and intersected by infre quent roads or " gaps" (as they are here called), through which alone it is possible for armies to ' penetrate. It will be obvious that upon the posses sion of these gaps depended the mestery of the situa tion as Gem Lee's army edged off from Fredericks burg towards Winchester. If he had moved off pte maturely from Culpepper Court-house and seized these gaps, Gan. Ewell's mission against the force of General Milroy at Winchester would have been frustrated, as General Milroy would have heard that the whole army was moving, and would have slipped off to Harper's Ferry. If after General EL well had s t ruc k hi s bl o w at Wi nc h ester G eneral -e had b een slow about se i z i ng t h e gaps he might h ave exposed hi m S elf an d Gener a l E we ll to great danger, it General Hooker had acted promptly, had seized the gaps and interposed between Lee and ,/ ~ IN S PAPE R -I . atZLIVI, 2 : I4- ! 1 - s e . , 7 e V . ,e afi l _ , q , '.. .411, fact that along the lines of entrench 17afet* , Vi e..,_:` i 103 e lai• , i 5, hoisted, and the opposing forces t - T together on the parapet of their work Yr -. At 1/ way. Admiral Porter, scenting what ve t - in f gle s wind, commenced a more furious borabaliMeny the mortars. It was not until four in theaternoon that General Grant cent word Over tO P ortt: r td . re quest him to cease firing, as the Confederalo 1 had sent out a flag of truce. the 3d instant, General Grant F r ( i F d e a d y e r u a l l e ) r , I; t l a n fd t General Pemberton (Confederate), bed a ecet.'- ferenee. The former is described as being rather silent and smoking, while Pemberton, equally cool end: careless in manner, was plucking straws and biting them as if carrying on the merest chit-chat. The Confederate General asked for terms ketto galling than those of " uneonditional" surrender. Grant refused any other permission than that of terkinge their clothing, side arms, one horse to each mouetal • officer, end 30 waggona of provisions. Same of tihe New York correaTiondenta sty that Pemberton eie 4 1 . 0avoured to bli n d hi s adversary to his true pos'. ?ton he - Wf:Diiing to insert a proviso that he seouel ha showed to take out eignt days', provisions, hut f , ,he nt h u v u Ild nut, ~F ed 4th e ,, r r al et m e was n -' ( entered jcuos t t o le r t e in deception hard. The e New _York World approves of the terms granted or.. these grounds:—" General Grant wad induced to grant these terms upon natural and justifiable mo tives. They were given as acts of magnanimity to a brave foe, not extorted as necessities to hasten the capitulation. It is asserted by the rebel officers that anything less than this would not have beer: accepted by them, and the consequences would have been a desperate conflict to escape throueh our lines. The present adjustment has this advantage, that it rids us of a large and encumbering load of prisoners whom we should have to feed, clothe, and tend, and to transport them 3,000 miles at enormous expense. Besides, it is very properly estimated that these men, returning to their homes and to their camps, will work more demoralisation to the rebel cause than a confinement in Northern prisons. It has been mooted among 'as that many of these men will be found fighting against us in a few days in violation of their paroles. This may be to some extent. Yet we firmly believe that half of of the e number will never carry musket,, in Confederacy more if they can help it. fourthA ie. of the whole number would take the oath of alle giance giance if permitted." To accept the Northern ac count of the causes which led to t he fall of ths stronghold, it may be stated that according to Gen. Grant Vicksburg was virtually won after the battle of Champion Hills. But there is no doubt th a t the Confederates possessed a good stock of provi sions, Gen, Grant weuld have had his task mate rially lengthened, and in that case it is impossible to conjecture the result. At the moment of their surrender the garrison were in great straits. Already they were reduced to the offal and dregs of their commissario. Mule meat, while not eaten as a necessity, had become preferable to their pickled beef, Pork was all gone, flour used up. Corn, un ground for the most part, was left in limited supply. But the worst difficulty was that of ammunition. Only ten percussion caps to the man were found in their pouches. Originally short, they had received forty-two thousand through the lines since the in vestment. Of cartridges they had very few. Their medicines were scanty. Nearly six thousand men in hospital and continually exposed to the dangers of plunging shells ; delicate women anE tender children crying for breed and wailing for the loss of friends around them. It must have been a strong heart that could have held out longer. One cause for determining the time was tin doubtedly the apprehension that on the 4th General Grant would attack. The re sult would be the sack and pillage of the city, and great slaughter. The capitulation avoided all with out loss of honour. The Federals took possession on the morning of their great anniversary, " The Fourth." General M'Pherson was sent into the lines to receive the surrender. He met General Pemberton at an old stone house about half a mile from the lines, and had conversed some minutes when General Grant rode upon the ground. After a brief consultation they rode into the town. Mej or. General Logan had already received orders to march into the town and establish a provost guard. Lieut.-Colonel Strong and Colonel Coalbagh, aides to General M'Pherson, rode on in advance with the national flag, which was hoisted over the court house, and its folds flung to the breeze at half past eleven o'clock. General Ellet, with the marine brigade, was the first to land, and Admiral Porter next. The gairrison of Vicksburg num b ere d a b ou t 30,000, beside l s whom there were only 4,000 citi zens and negroes. The visitors did not capture any very valuablestores. Ofpublic property there is little of any value beyond the cannon and ammunition ; 30 siege guns, 102 field-pieces, and 50,000 stand of arms and equipments are among the captures, and 80 stand of colours, most of which have been seized and torn to shreds as trophies by the excited troops. Of ammunition there is about 100 rounds for each heavy gun and about 12 for light field-pieces. Of cartridges there is a limited quantity. Some of the guns are very superior; one an English gun, 61 inch diameter, rifled; another 3.67, a Brooks' gun of great range, besides the old-fashioned 10-inch columbiad. Two of their heavy guns have burst during this siege and many of their field-pieces are disabled by Federal shot. A considerable quan tity of molasses, sugar, and tobacco was discovered but of all other stores the quantity was quite limited. When the tremendous nature of the bom bardment is considered, Vicksburg does not present such a ruined appearance as might have been ex pected. The fortifications, which are very extensive, and constructed with great ingenuity, are much cut up. The horrors attendant upon the constant storm of shot and shell which was poured into the place were such as have hardly been known since the days of the Peninsular war. When we consider that the i n habitants—men, women, and children— have, for a month and a half, been in daily terror of their lives, never being able to sleep a night at their homes, but crawling into caves, unable to mov e except in the few peaceful intervals in the heat of the day, we may appreciate what a life of horror was theirs. These caves, indeed, are among the most curious features of this life in a besieged city. Into these subterranean pits the inhabitants would crawl so often as the guns and mortars opened out what promised to be a heavy fire. From a diary kept by one of the unfortunate citizens we learn the feeling of the inhabitants towards the close of the siege. He says that the 31 of July was exceedingly hot. Early in the morning there was a little firing on the land side. About eight o'clock it ceased, and the report spread through the town of a flag of truce being sent out. Some construed it to mean a surrender of the city ; others that the Federals were demanding the surrender. Some supposed that the women and children, of which we had great num bers, were to be sent out, as there was considerable expectation of a bloody battle on the next day. The navy mortars kept up an increased fire upon the town, but in the rear all was quiet. Rumours kept flying about the town to various ends. At four o'clock the mortars ceased, and for what proved to be a lasting spell. We were once permitted to breathe without fear. Some degree of disquietude was felt by the citizens and army in regard to the fl)g of truce that had been passed on this day, and it leaked out that a surrender was in contempla tion. On the following morning it became known that the surrender had been made, and that the alleged cause was starvation. The people were divined on this me.tteroeme Insisting on an almudtance of supplies, while others maintained that they were exhausted. The result will prove that our provi sions are exhausted, our men weak in body, but un daunted in spirit. Whosoever may ho chargeable tor this cahmity, it cannot be laid to the brave end euffering garrison. Among the casualties during the siege were three women, and three children, and four men.. A number were severely injured, and numerous limbs were lost. Some most remark able and ludicrous escapes were made. 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