The Sun. — London, England, 1863-07-01 00:00:00

IR FITZROY KELLY, M.P. A Lay of Oxford.—A Bill at which to take at Sight—in Furi '1 HIS WEEK. One Penny. T tiEAT.RE-Ri; AL, HA Y RIARKEI,, Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 38th time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigaa, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by (18th time), a new Farce, EASY SHAVING Messrs. Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers ; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. k .To conclude with THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S MOTTI THE HUNDRED 3,1) FORTY-FIRST NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECD.TER. THIS EVENING, to commence with an Orivinal Sketch, entitled A :SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdleomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, ianported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G Jordan, J. Brougnam, 1 : 1. iddbombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, E. i.avenue, and Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole f.easee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining. THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Play 01 ROU PIO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. Walter vlontgomery; Mercutio, Mr. G. V ninv, ; Friar Lawrence. Mr. 11. Marston; Apothecary, fir. Belmore ; The Nurse, Mrs. H. Marston ; Juliet, Mdlle. Stella Colas. To be preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TO.d. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI, solP Pronriator and N‘ anaver. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRI -II TIGER. After which, at Eight 'clock, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN; T E GHOST'S iIARGAIN, In which will be exhibited Professor Pe) per's adaptation of the Great spectrai Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phi lips, Stsart, Billmgton C. J. Smith; Mrs. Allred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, ent'lled ILL-TREATED IL TRO vATORE. ssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, R Phillips, kbnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Tare, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, COURT FAVOUR. Messrs. W. H. Swanborough, Parselle, anti Miss Ada .•!.,wanborough. Alter which the Great Burlesque, ALI BABA ; OR, tHE INE THIEVES. Messrs. Honey, Turner, Danwrs, Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Saunders, White, Button, ante Hughes. 'to conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. Mr. li_ney and Miss Josephs. Commence at 7. T HE THTRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," A. Containing the L, test SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GL ENIE. NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, Juyl 1, 1863, THERIIIOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.20. Wind—E. ; light, and very fine weather. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. tHis DAY.—Morning, 111. 34m.—Afternoon, lh. 59m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 2h. 29m.—Afternoon, 2h. 54m. . '" Atk a 3 4 g k‘ll. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1863, An adjournment of the debate upon Mr. ROE BUCK'S motion was a matter of course. That ad journment, it will be seen, has been set apart for Thursday. Yesterday's discussion, however, of the important problem now submitted to the House of Commons for solution (thanks to the impetuosity, or the indiscretion, or whatever else may be the motive power actuating the hon. and learned mem ber for Sheffield)—last evening's discussion, we say, was sufficiently protracted not merely to admit of Mr. ROEBUCK himself relieving his mind of the whole argument prepared by him upon either side of the Channel in favour cf the recognition of the Southern States of America, but to allow of that argument being followed up by the more or less re markable speeches, delivered, among others, by the hon., right hon„ and noble representatives respectively of Birmingham, of Oxford University, of Stamford, and of Huntingdonshire. Mr. ROE BUCK—aII things considered—perhaps never before addressed the House of Commons at such enormous disadvantage to himself. Every one who listened to him last evening must have had almost pain fully in remembrance the thought that Tear'em had been over very recently, at his own free will and pleasure, to Fontainbleau, there to be very de licately and adroitly muzzled by the astute ruler of the French nation. That very potentate, at " the bright particular star" of whose good fortune, this same Tear'em has hitherto been baying as the mad dog bays the mcon. Hearkening to Mr. ROE BUCK'S speech last evening, the effect of his words at times was almost ridiculous. " I know certain things about the state of mind of the Great French Ruler which I am authorised (by his MAJESTY) to lay before this House." The House being--the British House of Commons ! The speaker of these courtly words about, and at the instance of, the G reat F re nch 1.-!uler being —of all men in the th ree k ingdoms —Mr. ROEBUCK Again Mr. COBDEN might have asked, as he once asked on the title page of a f amou s pamphlet, os What next and next." Perhaps Next w e shall be having a panegyric pronounced by Mr. KINGLAKE upon the valour of NAPOLEON III.! Or by Mr. WHALLEY upon the system of education carried out at the College of Maynooth. Or of open voting in contradistinction to the ballot by Mr. BERKELEY/ At any rate here was the member for Sheffield, the synical, stifforeked, cantankerous member for Sheffield, talking by the hour, in words the most honeyed, in phrases the most courteous, with epithets the most courtier-like and complimentary, about that same identical man of men, the Emperor of FRANCE, against whom he has heretofore alone emplo3ed language of the utmost possible scnrr lily. No wonder the opportunity, presented to him by the recognition of this astound- ing transformation, was altogether irresist ble when contemplated by the member for Birmingham ! N)t one of the foul terms Hung forth, in the most reckless of his vituperations of the Em. peror NAPOLEON 111., by the hon. and learned mem. ber for Sheffield, but what Mr. BRrnHT found them clinging tenaciously to his own remembrance — thereupon following up the immediate instinct of his constitutional pugnacity by hurling them back upon —the Reviler turned Panegyrist ! " I have no faith in the Emperor of the FRENCH !"—"Nothing but enmi►y and bad faith can be looked for from the French EMPEROR ! "---" His perjured lips touching that hallo wed cheek!" —every scurrilous phrase of Mr. ROEBUCK'S was faithfully echoed back to him laet night by Mr. BRIGHT. Ail those brutal vitu perations indulged in by the member for Sheffield, whenever he had occasion to make any reference directly to the potentate whom he now mentions. forsooth, only with such overwhelmingly protbaild respect, all Own rhttoricai biudgeonicgs, as we may call them, were yesterday showered down upon the biudgeoner himself vicariously, by the uncompro mising and pitiless member for Birmingham. Amidst the loud laughter of the House of Commons Mr. ROEBUCK not only had, as patiently as might be, to hear himself denounced by Mr. BRIGHT as a " co-conspirator" with the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., but, worse than that, as a touch of poignant ridicule, to hear himself and his associate, Mr. LINDSAY, spoken of by the member for Birmingham still more sneeringly as the envoy extraordinary from Fontainbleau,uay,theenvoyB"most extraordinary !" Viewing the whole of the vitally important question Lord SHAFTESBURY is not a man to let a subject drop. If once he has ascertained its importance to the welfare of any class of the community, he is sure to use unremitting efforts towards accomplish ing the desired end. Last night, in the Rouse of Lords, he rose to move an address to her MAJESTY, " praying that an inquiry into the physical and moral condition of the dressmakers and milliners be made by the Royal Commission now sitting, and the state of children and young persons in trades and manufactures not regulated by law." His lord. ship added that he had no doubt that the commission would find means to arrange some system that would lead to a discontinuance of the abominations of which they had lately heard so much. Earl GRANVILLE said that the Government had already referred the subject to this Commission, and that, therefore, there was no necessity for the address. It is to be trusted that no efforts will be spared to make this inquiry as full and fair as possible, and that if the reports communicated are unsatisfactory, as they are sure to be, some alterations will be speedily devised to check the deleteri( us influences of the unhappy plans now being .?tuployed, which on all sides are so condemned as alike militating against the health and often the womb o this I I in dispute as to the recognition or non•recognition of the Southern States of America—apart from this purely personal matter affecting the dignity and independence of a popular member of the English Parliament—it is impossible not to recognise already, through the haze of the first night's discus sion of that one paramount question in dispute, that the House of Commons has the opportunity now clearly before it of guiding to the one only wise and humane course of a temporising, a hesitating, and an all but bewildered Cabinet. The Budgets of the current year have been espe cially fortunate for India. Sir CHARLES TREVE• LYAN'S able statement met,'as it deserved to do, un qualified approval in Calcutta, and has given every encouragement to the well-wishers of India. Our English financier has, however, been equally for tunate or praiseworthy in affording a stimulus to the energies alike of capitalists, settlers, and natives. The cultivation of tea promises to open a new field in which success is not even doubtful. Attention has recently been especially turned in this direction, and by a fortunate coincidence at the very time when 1,500 miles at the foot of the Himalayas are being covered with the tea plant, the joyful news arrives that the English Chancellor of the Exche quer has greatly reduced the dity on tea. This has of course redoubled the energies of the specula. tors, and the prospect of profiting by the increased home consumption has raised their hopes and ex pectations to the highest pitch. Tea has, of course, been long cultivated in India, and the Assam tea plant in that country is well known among us. It is the spirit and extent of the present culti vation that renders it remarkable, and when we learn that the resources of neglected and misgo verned India are expected to excel Japan and com pete with China, so long the undisputed sovereign of the tea trade, we may reasonably hope that better days have dawned for our Eastern Empire. The usual export of tea from India has been about two million pounds and a half, while Japan has doubled the amount. The resources of Japan are not yet half developed, notwithstanding the indus try and sagacity of the people, and possibly the rapid advance of her competitor in the tea market may arouse her energies to make further progress. But even then there are na fears for India, where European capital and intelligence take the lead, and where such a vast expanse of hod lies waiting for cuttivation. The home trade and the protection of England give also immense advantages to the Indian cultivators, which the peculiarities of the Japanese will prevent them from sharing. Solittle doubt is entertained of the rapid development of the trade that there seems to be an absolute tea mania ; and certainly there is some excuse for the most prosaic mortal being carried away by excite ment when he sees comparatively new and unre markable companies declaring dividends of four, six, and even ten per cent. The great point on which the success or failure of the company chiefly depends is the possession of an able, experienced, and thoroughly trustworthy manager, who is on the scene of action. It is to be hoped that as soon as this want is more widely known there will be no lack of intelligent and capable Europeans to supply such offices. The tea districts and many other parts of India open a field to a class of men for whom there is not too much room at home, men who are no longer young enough for a subordinate position, but who, from various causes, are compelled to seek a new employment in middle life. The management of the tea districts would, of course, require some experience in that special line; but there are other branches of trade and commerce now opening in the country in which ready employment might be found for capable, honest, and intelligent Englishmen. The lessons taught by the indigo and silk trades which languished under native control, hut flourished with sudden energy under the management of Euro- peans, are not forgotten, though, thanks to the re strictive wisdom of our legislators, they have not hitherto been profited by to their full extent. Ten years sufficed to render the drooping Indian indigo a dangerous rival for the African market. Ten years from this time, if Providence spares us wars and disasters, will probably see India transformed. The one condition is that she should have enligh' ened and liberal government, and not be ruled in that perverse and prejudiced fashion which refuses to learn from the positive facts before its eyes. Atter all the experience of the past the Madras Presi dency still clings to the old restrictions. One would think the effects produced by the nine months of Lord CANNING'S regulations would have convinced the most prejudiced of the mischievous course they were pursuing. During those few months thousands of acres of land were purchased, which are now being cleared for tea cultivation. But if those rules had not been in force the land would still be lying waste, and we should hear n o more o f t h e promising trade. Assam, in which the plant is indigenous, is for the most part uncultivated, though larger than the little kingdom that rules the vast domains of India. We may fancy what the trade will be when ea drinking is as popular throughout Asia as it is ,n Europe, and it is a beverage peculiarly suited to :he temperate Hindoo. It has hitherto been an almost unattainable luxury for the lower classes, but the day is fast approaching when they may drink their own native produce at trifling cost. The admixture of Europeans, who, we may hope, wi remember the moral responsibility attaching to them, must have a beneficial effect on the nati ons , w hil e the regular and pacific employment is already, we l earn , transforming rude and bloodthirsty tribes into orderly and quiet labourers. A better future is dawning for India, and we trust that our statesmen and legislators will feel it their duty to encourage it by ev ery means in their power. The reduction of the tea duties has been a most welcome boon, and the sooner the sugar duties follow their example the better f or I ndia, as well as f or E ng l an d. P u bli c works ar e greatly needed, but the negligence of years is not atoned for in a day, and the large sums set aside for roads, canals, &c., by our able Indian financier, ought to produce great results by next year, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1863. working community. The habit that prevails in some establishments, and was referred to in a letter recently published on the subject, of supposing that all the young persons employed must have friends to receive them on Sundays, is a most objectionable one. Mr. ISAACSON, in his letter the other day, re marked that the young ladies could not go out in the evening because it was not proper for them, but this rule applies with much greater force to the practice referred to. It is putting them wilfully into temptation of all kinds, and no reprobation can be too strong for those who, instigated by the idea of a paltry saving, allow young persons who are in their charge to be exposed to evil. The whole mode of procedure is bad in the extreme, whether we con consider the insufficient ventilation, the over work in the bad atmosphere, the want of exercise in the open air, and, lastly, the custom of turning them out in the world when their fingers cannot be employed, the system adopted in these establishments is objectionable from first to last. It is a melancholy retrospection to calcu late the condition of so many young persons, whose whole lives have been rendered a burden to themselves by the ills that have followed in the train of these numerous hardships. What numbers have been forced to give up their employment altogether, and how large a portion fill untimely graves, it would startle some indifferent and igno rant parties concerned in the transaction to be told. The present is not rendered the easier to these sufferers, because of all the excitement that has re cently prevailed on the subject. While tha world has commented on the system, and bewailed its vic tims, the busy toil and traffic has gone on the same. There has been no diminution of labour, and no improvement in comfort to this unhappy tribe of workers. It remains, then, for those who have the means to use them, for those who are able and efficient, to relax in no effort, and to heed no discouragement, until they can rest assured that something has been done in the right way, and that the good cause is at least advanced in some degree.. it is too much. the practice with well intentioned persons to lament over a calamity at the time of its occurrence, without afterwards concern ing themselves,' any more about it. When the horror has passed away, they go on unheeding until the - next miofortune occurs. But this sad case of the dressmakers' anis tants has been too often the subject of cowmen and the object of scnemes and investigations, not to have now attained a degree of importance, and to have been invested with an interest that will not easily allow it to be forgotten. It cannot be that, when the season is over for the busy and the gay, these unhappy creatures are to know that :heir relaxation is never to come. There must be some individuals too just to allow this hardship to be definitely prolonged, and some hind hearts who will not readily remain in inaction while these cruel sufferings continue. No improvement was ever easily made, and no real good ever obtained for the industrial classes, without opposition having to be encountered. There are necessary evils to be endured, but none who earnestly take up this cause will deny that the success will be worth the struggle. The end that will crown their work will be a noble one, and it is only surprising that more has not been done in this quarter, considering the claims of its sufferers and the long time it has been before the public in various forms. However, there is now sufficient evidence to suit the most sceptica and sufficient reason to rouse the most inert to take up the cause with energy, and to continue it with zeal, secure that they can never find a better object for their cares, or effect more substantial benefits by their success. Recent Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland. By Captain C. C. Chesney, R.E. One vol., pp. 230. Smith, Elder, and Co. The author of this exceedingly clever, and in some parts very brilliant summary of General Pope's and General M•Clellan's operations during 1862 in Virginia and Maryland, has regarded those hapless Federal campaigns from a purely military point of view. In this precisely consists the dis tinctive value and interest of the volume here sub mitted to our consideration. Brief though it is, extending as . the work does to no more then ten rapidly-written chapters and a postscript, the book we cannot but pronounce, at once, a highly creditable performance on the part of Captain Chesney, whether regarding him as an Author or as a Soldier. To the student of the science of stra tegy, it holds out very conspicuous attractions. By them especially its pages are secure of being scanned with eager eyes of interest. How far the writer is qualified to descant thus currente calamo upon themes of such manifest complication, and of such inst4ntly recognisable importance, the very title page of the volume indicates to the reader, immedicely upon his openingit, and be fore commencing its perusal, there being attached to Captain Chesney's name, the reminder to us of his being already installed at Sandhurst Colleg , as the Professor of Military History. To his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief, the book is, as a parenthesis informs us H.R.H.'s gracious permission)" respectfully dedicated, as to one " übder whose direction the study of military history has first been introduced [surely it ought to have been said systematically and not altogether!] into the education of the British officer!" After giving a very lucid, and yet at the sametime a very comprehensive description of the seat of war— that is to say, in Virginia and Maryland—Captain Chesney describes in this rapid survey the opposing armies and their respective Leaders. He tnen re lates the circumstances of M'Clellan's advance upon Richmond, followed, soon enough, by his retreat from Richmond. Pope's campaign in Virginia is then sketched with a few swift, but some of them masterly touches. The invasion of Maryland, the fall of Harper's Ferry, the battle of Antietam, Lee's retreat into Virginia, and the fourth invasion of that ravaged State, lead the reader on, at last, to the superseding of M'Clellan by Burnside, when ihe base of the Federal ope rations was altogether changed. The narrative closes, so to speak, as we pause before Fredericks- burg. Ceptain Chesney in it has contrived to tt row much light upon the course of re cent military events in the melancholy war still raging between Federals and Confederates. And he does this simply, if one may say so, without appearing Thereby to depreciate the merit of his labours as a military historian, by systemising, within the compass of a little more than 200 very readable pages, ourhitherto somewhat confused recollections of the war as it began in Virginia and Maryland. • Old New Zealand, By A Pakeha Maori. One vol. Pp. 216. Smith, Elder, and Co. Several books relating to New Zealand, and the recent wars in New Zealand, have latterly, one after another, made their appearance. Among these more than twice-told tales, however, this new volume without difficulty. And this mainly, we would upon the self-same occurrences, will hold its own say, by re ason o f its vivacity. Past and P r e sen t— New Zealand and the New Zealanders stand before us vividly, here, in lively contrast. The Mariner, as the voyageur to our antipodes, who writes the fifteen amusing chapters, here under notice, needs must be as such—we ourselves " needa Must hear," as inevitably as the wedding guest was con strained to listen t , .) the Ancient Mariner in Cole ridge's eltrich ballad. That is, we needs must hear, or rather read, the Pakeha Maori who here discours es t o us, if we but once fairly begin turni ng over his pciges and rea di ng them with an attentive e y e . S cenery sham fi g h t i ng and real fighting, and dress, merna a id s and melons, flotsam and jetsom, these and countless other matters are sketched in by the Pakeha Maori with a pen in its way almost as vivid in its picturesque touches as though it were a pencil, and that pencil, too, a coloured crayon ! Unadorned by a single engraving, or even woodcut illustration, the volume so far resembles one of the famous storybooks of Hans Christian Andersen, inasmuch as it is to a certain extent also a picture-book without pictures. By the mere vivacity of his style the writer is his own illustrator. A KNOUT AND KNOUT SCOUNDREL. --General ouravi eff —Fun. EUGENE SUE, writes Captain Gronow, in his re cently published volume of small-talk, entitled "Recollections and Anecdotes," was the very reverse of Balzac, both in appearance and manner. Nothing could have been more correct and scrupulously neat than his dress, which was rather dandified, but in good taste, ac cording to the notions of 20 or 30 years ago. He wore always a very broad-brimmed hat, of glossy newness, and remarkably tight, light-coloured trousers; which, by-the by, were not particularly becoming to a man built in a stout mould ; but a Frenchman who cannot diminish the rotundity of his abdomen, generally revenges himself upon his legs, which he circumscribes in the smallest possible compass, giving himself very much the appearance of what we Englishmen are taught to believe to be his national characteristic and prototype—a frog. . He was remarkable for the beauty of hia horses; his cab was one one of the best appointed in Paris; his house in the Rue de la Pepiniere (*.ow an asylum) was a perfect " bonbon niere," and his dinners were renowned for their excellence. He was supposed (and to my knowledge with considerable reason) to lead a very Sardanapalian life. Strange stories are told of his castle in Sologne, where he was waited on by a number of beautifni women, of all countries, and of all shades of colour. DEERFOOT CONTESTING A RACE ON BOARD TPe GREAT EASTERN.—Daring the passage of the monster vessel there was a continual succession of sports, games, and diversions among the thousand passengers and the crew, Running matches, purses for walking, jumping in sacks, steeplechases on all fours, and —name it not to the police—" cock fighting" prevailed• The whole was con cluded, while the ship was going up the Sound, with a race for a purse between Deerfoot and Mr. Rafferty (engi neer's steward.) The distance was three times round the dock—about three-quaeters of a mile. At ten o'clock on Wednesday, May 27th, the pedestrians appeared at the starting-place. Deertoot was the favourite, although un used to the sea and running on planks, whore Rafferty, who is accounted a capital pedestrian, was quite at home. Deer foot, however, won easily by ten yards. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN A kIuMCEOPATHIST.—For years past the honlosepathists have had a royal patron in the Queen of Spain. Latterly her Majesty has entirely broken with the allopathists and all other ists, and trusted herself entirely to homoeopathy. As a consequence, most writers of homoeopathic books now send a book to Madrid, and in return mostly receive a Spanish decoration of some kind or other. Thus the order of Charles 111. has just been bestowed upon two French pupils of Hahnemann, Messrs. Jahr and Peroussel,. It is proposed to erect in Westminster Abbey a bust and tablet in honour of the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis. Their Royal Highness9B the Duchess of Cult bridge and the Princess Mary of Cambridge will honour Lady Howard with their company at her morning party at Craven Cottage, Fulham, to-morrow (Thursday), the 2d inst. battle, and the nenes connected with it, Lord Wil liam, although wounded at the time, was through out a prominent spectator. Lord William's mother, it should be remembered, was the Duchess of Richmond, who gave that ever memorable ball on the eve of the battle—" when Belgium's capital had gathered there her Beauty and her Chivalry." The second volume finds Lord William au officer in the Horse Guards, and a page at the coronation of George IV. Then as we turn over the succeeding chapters what a be wildering variety of scenes and characters pass before us. The leading stars of the theatrical and musical worlds, Kean and Kemble, Vestris and Malibran—the wits and humorists of the past generation—Theodore Hook and Charl.s MAthews the elder, and among others Count D'Orsay and the men of fashion! The marriage of King George IV., the death of the Princess Charlotte, the publi cation of the Waverley novels —such are a few among the remarkable incidents and events with which these two volumes superabound. It is true the work, as a whole, is (almost inevitably, per haps), somewhat superficial in its style, and ephe meral in its character; but it is written throughout in a kindly, genial tone, and cannot fail to afford pleasure to those who read it. It will amuse all, and will certainly interest the majority of those who may happen to make its acquaintance. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per the American.) NEW YORK, JUNE 19 (Afternoon General Lee's plan is to move his whole army to wards Centreville, and launch them either directly on the works at Arlington Heights, by way of Vienna, and cross the Potomac at Coon's Ford, 12 miles above Washington then move directly east to Bladensburg, tear up the railway there, so as to cut off communication with the North and East, and then attack Washington from that direction. General Lee►s main army was on Tuesday (the 16th) at Thoroughfare Gap, 40 miles west of Wash ington. On Wednesday an engagement occurred at Aldie, in the Bull Run mountains, between a detachment of Federat cavalry, and Fitzhugh Lee's brigade, in which the Federals drove the Confederates from several positions for five miles, and captured seventy prisoners. The Governors of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are very active in raising and for warding militia to the points threatened. Numerous regiments have left New York and Philadelphia, and others are organising. The New York 7th Regiment is stationed at Baltimore. The popular clamour for the appointment of General M'Clellan continues. The Philadelphia and New York municipalities have also proposed resolutions urging the President to reinstate M'Clellan. The New York German Committee has requested Mr. Lincoln to permit Generals Fremont and Sigel to issue a call for volunteers for the defence of Pennsylvania. The President replied that the Governor of New York was sending troops, and it would cause confusion for the Administration to set to work independently of him. (Per the American.) NEW. YORK, JUNE 19 (Evening, There is no material change in the State of things at Vicksburg. The Federals still hold the Black River Bridge, and there are no Confederates within 30 miles of Gen. Grant's rear. Reinforcements and supplies for Gen. Pemberton in Vicksburg are said to be sent across the Missis sippi from De Soto during night. The reported capture of Pocataligo Bridge oetween Savannah and Charleston by negro troops was untrue. Several Federal expeditions have been made from Port Royal into defenceless portions of the country, and private residences and property have been destroyed and plundered. General Hunter, who is replaced by General Gilmore in South Carolina, has arrived in Wash ington. The Ohio Republican convention nominated John Brough, a war democrat, for Governor. A Democratic meeting held at Springfield, Illinois, has passed resolutions opposing the war, favouring peace upon the restoration of the Union, and proposing a national convention to secure the Constitutional State rights. A public meeting held at Montgomery, County Indiana, has appointed a committee to inform the enrolment commissioners that they would enrol at their peril. Measures have been taken to arrest the parties implicated in the meeting. The Florida has Burnt the ship Crown Point. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 19 (Evening). Money tighter ; gold 436 per cent. premium ; Exchange on London bankers' bills, 1561 ; Stocks dull, New York Centrals, 117/ ; Illinois Central, 1004 ; Erie 93 ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 101. Cotton steady; Midland Upland, 58; Flour dull, and prices 10c. lower; wheat dull, et a decline of 3c.; corn heavy, and 2c. lower; provisions in good inquiry; coffee quiet; sugar dull; molasses steady ; crude petroleum, 28 to 29. The excitement throughout Pennsylvania has materially abated. The report of the invasion was exaggerated, the only Confederate force in Penn sylvania being 3,500 men under Generals Jenkins and Rhodes at Harrisburg and Greencastle, and they retreated upon the afternoon of the 17th inst., it is supposed to Hagerstown. The Confederates have respected all private property, and paid for all goods in Confederate scrip. Harrisburg and Pittsburg are being strongly fortified, as it is still believed that it may enter into Gen. Lee's plans to attack these places, although it is now generally thought that the capture of Wash ington is the object of Gen. Lee's campaign. Upon Tuesday the 16th inst., the Federals at Harper's Ferry were attacked by the Confederates and compelled to retreat to Maryland Heights, from where they shelled the Confederates, who, after damaging the railroad and the canal, retreated towards Williamsport, the Federals reoccupying Harper's Ferry. At Winchester Gen. Milroy abandoned his guns and everything during his retreat, and his forces became scattered; 1,600 of them arrived at Han cock, Maryland, but learnivg that the Confederates were approaching in force, and being demoralised and without officers, they dispersed over the country. General Hooker's army is supposed to be in the neighbourhood of Bull's Run, his head-quarters being at Fairfax, but General Hooker's movements being dependent upon the development of General Lee's plans, it is impossible to tell Hooker's exact position, The Baltimore correspondent of the .New York Herald asserts that General Lea's object is the cap ture of Washington. The Confederates who at tacked Martinsburg and Winchester, and who in vested Harper's Ferry, and invaded Pennsylvania, numbered 12,000 men, and consisted of three squad rons of Ashley's cavalry and the rest of mounted guerillas under Jenkins, Jones, and Imboden, with two regiments of infantry. General Ewell did not command them, and they were not drawn from his corps. THE ATTACK UPON GENERAL MILROY, (From the Baltimore American.) Major-General Milroy reached Baltimore at one o'clock this morning from Harper's Ferry, and returned again at 11 o'clock on a special train with his staff. He came down to have a personal inter view with Major Gen. Schenck, and to waive all claims of rank in interfering with the command at that point, which wilt remain under Brigadier-Gen. Tyler. He, however, desired to return to his men, and volunteered to act in any po,ition that he might be deemed most serviceable in. We had the pleasure of a brief conversation with him, and were pleased to learn that his forces have not suffered to so great an extent as was supposed. At the time he left the Ferry, forty-two members of Alexander's Maryland Battery had arrived, and it was believed a considerable number had made their escape in the direction of Romney and Cumberland. They mostly secured their horses, and have probably accompanied the cavalry. The only Maryland regiment that suffered severely was the sth Regiment, knowh a 6 Col. Boh4offs who wry attempts to storm and capture their batteries, bu , ...._• was driven back. Daylight was now rapidly approaching, and it was deemed prudent to endeavour again to cut their way through the enemy's lines, which was successfully accomplished, and being without artillery, they Suffered conside rably, especially in prisoners captured, before the enemy gave up the pursuit. About 12 o'clock on Monday they reached HaMown, and tie enemy. having abandoned the pursuit, they, after a short rest, marched into Harper's Ferry during the after• noon, The gallant fellows were in a sad condition, after so severe a march and fight, but were full o spirit and gratification that they had escaped the clutches of the enemy. All the stores, ammunition, and waggons at Winchester, fell into the hands of the enemy, together with all the artillery, not a gun having been saved. THE WRECK OF THE STEAM-SHIP NORWEGIAN. ASPY BAY, CAPE BRETON, June 14, 1863, The steam-ship Norwegian, of the Canadian steam ship line, which left Liverpool at half-past twelve o'clock noon, of the 4th, and Londonderry on the sth instant, for Quebec, was wrecked on St. Paul's Island this (Sunday) morning, 14th instant, during a thick fog. All her passengers and crew, together with mails and baggage, were saved. -The newspaper despatches were saved by Purser Wallace. (Despatch to the Agents in Montreal.) MONTREAL, June, 17, 1863. The following despatch has been received by the agents of the steamed Norwegian : ‘ e ASPY BAY, C. 8., June 14, 1863 "Allan Rae end Co., Quebec. " The Norwegian was wrecked this morning, seven o'clock, in a thick fog, on Sr. Paul's Island, a mile and a quarter east of the North-east Light. Sne had on board fifty-eight cabin and two hundred and seventy-one steerage pass , -ngers—all, together with the crew and mails, saved. A large portion of the baggage has also been landed. "The steamer, when I left at one o'clock, was all but on her beam ends, well on the rocks. Her fore peak and forward compartment have several feet of water in them. The main and after ones are quite dry. Captain M'Master was not certain whether she could be got off. He rt quests that a steamer be sent down immediately to the wreck. " The passengers have been conveyed to the Government Humsne Society's House. " Mr. Campbell, Governor of the Island, is lend- ng all his assistance. "JOHN WALLACE, Parser." NEW YORK, JUNE 20, Morning. General Sherman's corps have pushed their ap proaches to within 20 yards of the bastions at Vicksburg. The Richmond Inquirer says that the Federal gunboats have ascended the Chickahonainy to within 60 miles of Richmond, a land force of 15,00 C co-operating. Preparations were being made to repel any attack. General Bragg has been reinforced, and there are indications of his uniting with General Buckner to invade Kentucky. The British Consul has arrived from Riehmdnd at Fortress Monroe. The Confederate Secretary of State has written to Mr. Mason officially that the President's deci sion to revoke the British Consul's exequatur was mainly influenced by the Consul denouncing unoffi cially the Confederate Government as indifferent to cases of great and atrocious cruelty. These re marks referred to the enlistment by conscription of two British subjects who, by their acts, had ac quired de facto citizenship. Protection and respect will be continued towards foreign consuls who pos sessed the Federal exequatur prior to the secession, as long as they do not seek to evade the legitimate authority of the Confederate Government. 80 , Lord Ly ons assumes the power to iesue instructions end exercise authority over British consuls residing in the Confederate States, thus ignoring the exis tence of the Confederate Government, and implying the continuance or relations between that Ministry and British Consuls residing in Confederate States which existed prior to secession. This is also the assertion of a right by Lord Lyons to exercise the authority of a Minister accredited to and officially received at Richmond. The President therefore forbids further direct communication between neu tral consuls in the Confederate States and function aries of neutral nations residing in the enemy's country. In future all couanunications hotweeu the . absent in Baltimore. The enemy turned the guns of the Maryland Battery on this regiment, and for a time they were in a very hot position. The ❑umber killed and wounded is not known, hough but few of them escaped either casualties or capture. They fought bravely, and it is hoped that a good number of them are prisoners of war. The Sixth Maryland Regiment, which was report( d to have been cut up and almos. destroyed, to the astonishment of every one, came marching into Harper's Ferry yesterday afternoon, with their flags flying, arms at rest, and singing " Hail Columbia," with the gallant Colonel Howe at their head. It seemed as if they had risen from the dead, and their return caused great astonish ment. It appears that at the commencement of the assault on Winchester they were entirely cut off and being surrounded by an immense force surren dered, and were taken to the back of the works. In the confusion of the assault made by the rebels they were neither disarmed nor placed under guard, and Colonel Howe, knowing the country sell, and see ing an opportunity to escape by side road, formed his men in line, and in the darkness of the evening moved quietly off. They were compelled to take a circuitous road to reach the Ferry, but went on their way rejoicing, with neither an enemy in front nor pursuers in the rear. The cavalry force of Gen. Milroy, consisted of the First New York, Thir tieth Pennsylvannia, and two companies of the Third Virginia. Gen. Milroy ordered them to re treat to Romney and Cumberland, and he yester day received a despatch announcing their safe arrival at that place; The outer works at Winchester were carried by the rebels by storm at six o'clock on Sunday evening, and the whole fortifications strongly invested by a force of not lesr' ttian 15,000 men under General Ewell. It became at once a question of ultimate surrender or to make a bold dash to force their way through the enemy's lines; and a council of war, held on Sunday night, unanimously advised an evacuation. The large guns and his artillery were all spiked at (Ace, and at one o'clock on Monday morning he abandoned everything except his horses, and struck boldly through the enemy's lines. The movement was so rapid that the enemy was taken by surprise, and, the night being dark, the movement, so far as the troops immediately investing the works were concerned, was accom plished with but little loss. They were followed by cavalry, and a great many stragglers taken pri soners ; but when four miles this side of Winches ter, at the junction of the road leading from Berry. ville to Bunker Hill and Martinsburg, they were intercepted by a strong rebel force with artillery, and strongly posted in the woods on the roadsides. General Milroy rallied his men and made several British Consul and foreign countries, neutral hostile, must be restricted to vessels arriving from or despatches to neutral ports. Serous resi:Aance has been offered to the enrol ment in Ohio. A collision has occurred between the military and 500 armed insurgents. Another enrolment officer has been shot in Indiana. It is considered certain that General Lee is ad vancing upon Hookers army in three columns, his right under Hill, by way of Oecoquan and Wolf Run shoals; his centre under Ewell, by way of Thoroughfare Gap ; and his left under Longstreet, 5y way of LE•esburg. This information was obtained by a reconnaissance of Colonel D,ffi•-, who, after the engagement at Aldie on Wednesday, proceeded to Middleshurg, but was driven out by the Confederates, and retreated across the mountains at Hope Gap, reaching the Federal outposts by tortuous routes. Several of his officers are missing. General Hooker's forced march from Falmouth to Fairfax was attended with great hardsilip, all the streams being dried up. The woods were full of stragglers, who could not be kept in the ranks, and numbers fell upon the road through exhaustion. An attack was apprehended in Baltimore on Wednesday, the 17th inst., and north and north western roads leading to the city were barricaded with tobacco hogsheads. Upon Wednesday night the Confederates crossed the Potomac at two points, and drove the Federals from Point of Rocks and Catoclin station, after wards capturing a military train running between Harper's Ferry and Baltimore. The Confederates have not entirely abandoned Pennsylvania. Upon Friday morning, the 19th inst., they entered Maconnelsburg end carried off larie quantities of boots, shoes, cattle, and horses. They still occupy Greencastle, and troops have been sent from Harrisburg to Chambersburg by rail, and will march from Chambersburg against the Con federates at Greencastle. Yesterday (19th inst.) 12 Confederate regiments were encamped about Hagerstown and Williams port, Maryland, and more were cr ssing at Wil liamsport. They have visited Hancock, Maryland, but were driven off. The Federal General Milroy is said to be advanc ing towards Rast, with 4,000 mounted infantry and 5,000 mounted riflemen. The militia arriving at Harrisburg are to be sworn in for 30 days. Tne Governor of Pennsylvania assures the troops they would be discharg(d immediately upon the present emergency being over. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 1. The North German Lloyd's steamship America, from New York on the 20th, has arrived here with 170 passengers, 8 200 dols. in specie for E ,, gland, 101,400 dols. for France, and 500 do:R. for Bremen. On the 24th ult., in long. 47 58 W., lat. 46 32 N., during a dense fog, the America came in con tact with the English bark Eliza Ann, of Ply mouth, with timber, from Quebec. Toe Eliza Ann was cut down to her waterline, water-logged, and abandoned at 9 p.m. All hands were saved. LITERATURE, Fifty Years' Biographical Reminiscences. By Lord William Pitt Lennox. 2 vols., imp. Bvo. Hurst and Blackett. Lord William Lennox has given us, in these two very charming volumes, h pleasant glimpse of the glittering surface of society, and the different celebrities of every various kind and character who, meteor-like, have " come" and " gone " in rapid succession during the last half century. Lord Wil liam very modestly tells us that his book is "sent forth entirely without literary pretension. It is given," he adds, " as the lightest possible gossip, put together without art; a mere collection of memo randa of the remarkable characters I have known." And certainly. during his fifty years' experience his acquaintance has been Singularly varied and re markebie. Born in 1799, the same year in which bis father, then Colonel Lennox, fought his duel s it h the Duke of York, the author of these memoii a had for his godfather no less a personage than Wil Liam Pitt. Reminiscences of Dublin Society during his boyhood (when his father was Lord Lieutenant), and of Westminster School, end his painful experi ence at " fagging " fill up the first chapters of the first volume. In 1814 Lord William accompanies the Duke of Wellington to Paris, being appointed attache to the British Embassy in the capital. As an illustration of the easy, gossipping style in which these memoires are written, and the pleasant anec dotes with which they abound, let us quote the fol- lowing passage : " I knew almost every body in Paris, who might be consi dered worth knowing; celebrities of almost every variety. Talma I saw as often es I could ; but there was another theatrical star of whom I saw a good deal more. " Madame Grassini has since paid the debt of nature at Milan. She was about seventy-eight years old, but looked scarcely fifty, so wonderfully well had she pre served her attractions as a beautiful and accomplished vocalist. " Tbia admirable lady possessed in the highest degree the art of touching the feelings. Talma used to say of her that he had never seen any other actress—not even Mars, Duval, or Duchesnois—endowed with a physiognomy so expressive and so mutable. " Her profile, with its Grecian outline, her fine marble brow, and dark hair, which formed a frame of ebony about it—her incomparable eye brows, her black g . psy eyes, now flashing with the fiery passions of tragedy, then languish ing with the tender emotions of love—and that astonish ing ensemble of perfection which nature had collected in her, as if to review all her gifts in one woman, exer cised on the spectator a charm he found it impossible to resist. One evening in IEIO, Grassini and Crescentini were singing Romeo and Juliet, at the Tuileries. After the ad mirable scene in the third act, Napoleon, transported, and forgetting the rules of etiquette, clapped and shouted like a school boy. " Telma was weeping, seated on a bench near the orches tra. The great tragedian confessed that he had never felt anything so deeply in his life before as what he now felt after listening to the syren. " As soon as the performance was over, the Emperor sent Crescentini the order of the Iron Crown. Not beingable to decorate (rassini in the same way, he enclosed to her a slip of paper, on which he had written with his own hand : ' Bon pour vingt mile Iivres.•—NAPOLEON.' " Crescentini, who was frantic with joy at the unexpected Favour conferred upon himself, could not help peeping at the Lady's note. ' Twenty thousand francs I' cried he, 'that's a large Bum.' " It is the marriage portion of one of my nieces,' replied Grassini, " Indeed no artist could be more generous or more indul gent than she was to her family. "Long after the Empire had been swept away, as the great actress chanced to be at Bologna, they presented an other niece to her, who was also to be provided for. The girl was extremely pretty, but she lacked spirit and tone of voice, they eaid, to take to the stage. She is a spoilt con tralto,' they added. the Your world,yo " Let me h ear her,' said Grassini. "No so oner h ad the girl emitted her first note, than she threw her arm s a b out her neck, and said— iysotuheonfiinnesyto s u o r pra no vocation. in " Dear child, you require none of my assistance to get ice is mine. Labour we ll , my little darling,here is a rich bank in your throat.' t n fa o r t a s tronger contralto; it than a "The young girl to whom Madame Grassini predicted so brilliant a destiny was Giulia Grisi." Immed lately following these festive remembrances, come the memorable episode of Waterloo, of Iyhigh AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, JULY 1. The Lineolqshire, from Melbourne, April 18, passed here this morning. She brings 10,805 oz. gold. The Lincolnshire landed eight passengers at this port. Mr. Laulie, one of her passengers, an auctioneer of Geelong, wad washed overboard and drowned on the 26th May. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JULY 1. The chief of the Provincial Government of Prus sia has published a letter of the Crown Prince, dated the 26th ultimo, expressing the thanks of the Prince and Princess for the many proofs of sincere affection and devotedness shown to their Royal Highnesses during their recent journey. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, JULY 1. The Royal Mail Company's ship Parana, with the Brazil mail, has arrived here, and will leave at 2 p.m. to-day for Southampton with 191 passengers, £7,168 in gold, £7,545 in silver, 250 rolls of to bacco, and 203 packages of sundries. FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 1. MM. Schneider and Vernier have beet, appointed Vice-Presidents of the new Corps Legislatif, and MM. Hebert and Romeuf questors. An Imperial dtcree has been piAlirhed for a Universal Egnibition of Agricultural and Indus trial Products, which shall open at Parts in May, 1867. Productions of these descriptions will be admitted from all nations. BOURSE, June 30.—The market remains quiet, but with prices maintained. Threes, for the Ac count, are unvatied at 68f, 50c.. Little doing in Railway Shares, and but slight change in quota tions. Stock became offered before the close by speculators who had been before two extenaive purchasers, and prices receded to leave Lif as fol lows : tl per Cents . . 96 95 Italian Loan 73 30 Do eud month.... Do. end month - i per Cents Do. end month.... 68 35 Do, end month — Credit M obilier.... 1185 Russian li n . en d mont h .... 1176 50 Austrian — Bank shares 3410 6pani.,h Threes., .. 54 Credit 1 oncier 1370 Rome Debt .. 52 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 997 50 .. 996 25 Northern .... New ditto • -- • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1017 50 .. 1015 Geneva .. 447 50 .• 417 50 Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian - LOW hard North of Spain Saragossa 720 .. 720 Ditto to Barcelona EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERIES IN ROME; as described by t% German sculptor living in the Eternal City.—The villa of Livia, the wife of Augustus, called "Ad Gallinas," has been excavated near Prima Porta, seven miglie from Rome, on the Via Flaminia ; and at the very beginning of the excavations the completely preserved figure of Augustus, besides three very beautiful busts and reliefs, were brought to light. This figure, eight feet in height, is the most beautiful imperial statue in exist ence, and altogether a work of first rank. A special interest is found in the excellently preserved traces of painting on the mantle, under-garments, and arne.u.r. The mantle was red; but on the head and the nude legs no trace of painting is to be foupd. The people who had made the discovery were naturally very happy, and flattered themselves with the hope of receiving no less than half a million of scudi for it; but we considerably damped their enthusiasm. and brought them dow n to 20,000 scudi. I wonder whether our valua'ion was correct. The excavations of the im perial palaces, instituted by Napoleon, have likewise 3 ielded important results already, chiefly of architectural interest. The sculptures found yet are not of much consequence. It is a colossal undertaking, and will taee about ttn years more, at least beiore it is completed. In order to assist the Emperor's plans the Pope has given orders tnat the other side of the Palatine, where the walls of Romulus were found, shall likewise be examined ; and excavations have been set on foot on that spot. 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