The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-11 00:00:00

NE" THEATRE-ROY AL, ADELI,?Iii.-- 010 Pronnufor and 111pnager. Webs'er. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. After which, at Eight (,'clock, a new drama, enfitl,A THE HAUNTED MAN T E GHOST'S V.Ait(.IATZ , T, in which wiil be exhibited Professor Pevoer's adaptation of the Great Spectral illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, It. Phi .lips, Sefton C. J. Smith; M rs . Allred Mellon and Miss V. Si mms . Followed by anew Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IT. TKO VAT 0 RE. Mc ssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, It. Phillips, Xbrirne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and ears, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. :tanager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. To-NIGHT WHILE THERE'S LIFE THEars HOrE. Messrs. W. 11. Swanborough, Parselle, G. Honey ; Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, Mandel's, and E. Balton. Followed by (21st time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maril Simpson, Wallace, ana .Jenny White. To conclude with KEEP YOUR TEMPER. Commence at 7. r HE THUD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing• the test SPORTING INTELLIGENT E, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGE:k.7T, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, —h. —m.—Afternoon, 12k. ISm, To-bioßnow.-Morning, 12h. 44m.—Afternoon, lh. 10m. The Weather--Sun Office, Aug.,ll, 1863, THERMOMETER. This morning. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.06. Wind—S.-W. ; light, and fine. Vii. cgo Suit 1 ~~ ~ LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1863, Later news from America, intelligence bringing the narrative of the war down to the beginning of this current month of August, shows the main army of the Confederates, under LEE, to be situ ated between Culpepper and Gordonsville. There the attitude assumed by him is said to be purely defensive. But —simultaneously with the receipt of this fragmentary intimation as to the Confede rate Commander-in-Chief —we learn in other words that the Federal Commander-in-Chief is begin ning t o evidence anything bat the confiden ce of a conqueror. The recent movements of his army, it is said, under date August 1, New York, will be followed by its former inactivity ! An account certainly not without its significance. More par ticularly when together with it comes the intima tion that Kentucky has been invaded by the Foutherns! General BURNSIDE, in making these latest warlike tidings known, through a proclama tion that, as a matter of course, speaks of the Con federates as " the rebels," General BURNSIDE we say in making public this new and daring invasion of Kentucky by the rebels pronounces the enterprise to have been undertaken with the intention of overawing the judges, intimidating the voters, and forcing the election of disloyal candi dates at the election of the ensuing 3d of Septem ber. As the instant consequence of this same in vasion of Kentucky martial law had been declared throughout that State. " Military commanders," said the General, " will aid the State autho rities to support the laws and the purity of suffrage. The judges present at the polls will be held strictly responsible that no disloyal person be allowed to vote, and to this end military power will give them its utmost support." Summing up the relative positions of the confronting main armies in a single announcoraent, one of the New York papers says, sententionsly,that the Army of the Potomac is again upon the R'ppahanock, MEADE is there somewhere in the immediate vici nity of Falmouth. LEE confronting him, upon the defensive, but prepared for any emergency, we may be certain of that, if only by reason of his admirably planned and deliberately conducted retreat—LEE confronting his old antagonist at a point situated at a mutually respectful distance,end already indicated with sufficient distinctness as one midway between Culpepper and Gordonsville. So situated, the armies, it was expected on the Ist instant at New York, could not in reasonable probability but very soon indeed come again into collision. Mr. GILBERT, the Secretary of the Society for the Relief of Distress, has published a very interesting pamphlet on tho "Condition of the Wives and Families of Married Convicts, with Suggestions for its Amelioration." There is no class of society more to be pitied than these unfortunate persons, whose means of subsistence are taken from them, and who are exposed alternately to cruel privations and sad temptations. Mr. GILBERT is in a position to know accurately the circumstances of the case as regards many of these hapless individuals, and the details he puts before us tend to prove that it is necessary speedily to adopt some remedial measure. The troubles, the c r i mes , an d t h e expenses attending I the present pans all call for a speedy remedy. Mr. GILBERT prefaces his remarks by stating that he has seen, while acting as secretary to the society, "such abject misery" among the families of the convicts that ho is emboldened to make the effort to bo of service to them, although so much has already been written and said on the subject of our convict system. lie states that it must be con sidered that, however great the crime of the married convict, he has still been the support of his family, and, to a certain extent, provided for them, and when he is taken away his family have to endure a punishment as severe as his own, and often as dis honourable. His wife and children must then work for themselves, but who will employ the wife and child of a convicted thief. If the woman applies to the parish, they get rid of her by telling her to come to the House. Not wishing to be separated from her children, she refuses, and attempts to sup - port herself and them. In this painful position The weekly meeting of the Central Executive great sufferings await them. It has been found Relief Committee which took place at Manchester that the mortality among the children of married yesterday already testifies the truth of the warnings convicts is greater than among the poorest of the that have been lately uttered respecting the condi- honest poor, even under the most unfavourable cir tion of the distressed districts, From Mr. FAR. cumstances. If driven to despair, the wife at last Neea's report it appears that the tide has again enters the House with her children, they remain turned, and that i n th e 27 un i ons receiv i ng paro - fi xtures, for no one will employ them, an d cilia). relief there has been an increase of 1,299 ap- they are " a continued expense to the teems, Th e principal increase is at Ashton.unCer- ratepayers and a misery to themselves.' , 51 e , Oldham, Rochdale, an d Bl ac kb urn , b es id es Th e number of wives and children obtaining parish man y s maller places. Still there are other districts relief is very considerable. A few instances are in Which a, email diminution is perceptible, and the given of the different parishes in London. At St. total eashighly satisfeesinee December i s 126,048, It i s G eo rge, Southw ar k, t h ere are 57 women and 134 signs of the stor7 to find that there are as yet no children; at St. Mary, Islington, 93 women and or indifference plie s being stopped by the frugality 201 children. It is truly said that the cost of the dred pounds hay the public, nearly fourteen }sun- married convict is enormous on the public purse. After the usual been rec e i ve d d ur i ng the week. Each above the value of his labour is, on the average, men who had a .,,, ar4 " 3 had b een ma d e the gentle- twenty-nine pounds a-year, and while the whole Inbi 'd und of Lord DERBY h ad 4 d under the abl e presidency or part of the e xpense of maintaining hi s f am il y i s Works Bill, just pass,,. 'consision on the P u bli c cast on the poor-rate, it is forc ib ly urged that, " on meet, and the probabl e effect of 4 ' ll t he 'Ye - louses of Parlia- th e score o f economy alone, some vast re f ormat i on is , o _ on the employment nt ta uue of i ts clauses requ i re d i n our present system of conv i ct manage- Lord EGERTON expressed, set°l7 operatives. meat." Still sa dd er are the deta il s concern i ng t h ose know whether in granting ea t" anxiety to children whose parents have brought them• up in of guardians, the Government t ' e 3r to boards crime. In some cases where the mother is a de- Nvonld ens , condition respecting the rate of wagesneese any prayed woman, she has been known to pursue her ; Whether the rule would be to give "a fair 1 ether such a aura wage children from place to place, until she at last has (4ay', wa for a fair day's work," or only got them turned cut into the streets and driven as body and soul together. Mr. " it were to crime. It is here menticned that the rould keep I' children of the mar r i e d conv i cts i n the Austral i an es a, in anSwer to the noble /ord's observations, colonies r pruarked that the bill was throughout p ermis. toi are rar e ly thi eves. T he chief cause is said operatives at Victoria, compulsory. It did not compel the ' that they can more readily obtain work. Sir stye, and not I,Vir.aakx A,n. DECKETT, late Supreme Judge of local authorities to employ factory particular rate never kn g 4 va it no his opinion that he all, nor did it stipulate that any N ° the be kept to, Mr. FARNALL convict turn nes son of a tranTorted of wages should - " , 41. a : ice in tor in Australia all boys his own eztensive ezperi- may obtain t proceeded to say ; from `"ad the primary tenanta ence in the matter, t h a t ha believed payment lion to the ebrniiPal,t7re%/elf;) medsurernent (:). f th e worm is wanting. The Platt,. . , bQi ng dishones t—privatio i c 'faculties in the way would be made upon p eevo , , - ne on the same is a good one so far a s it tad by Mr. GILBERT done, so that each man would goes, tho .h labourer would there would be found many e n n- ' doubtless rate of wages as an independent carrying it out. lee ad ' do. According to Mr. FARNALL'S statement there of vises the establi community, where, to use his ehment of is every prospect of the bill being of groat prac- a own Words ~ of employment should be abundant , the tiaal utility, for it seems probable that all the means , the during the whole pe e i o e districts will aysil themselves of the powers it dustry compulsive rind °p his idleness should be I nni h a, where . 8 e as confers, and that a very large sum of money ill s'n fen " ; .; wiiure it shall ha inspessihle to p ueche „ iL, be raieed in ern to set e:the uni.n2ployk, , d factory c ; ' iql; drink:,aid whto 01,1 aiz;niates, en t ers halide to work. The guardians hate the good t;;IICZ.“' An engagement —it would be difficult to sly a decisive engagement and even if we could say it, by whom would such an intimation as that be credited ?—an engagement of some kind, decisive or indecisive, was, when these last advices left, per the City of London, pretty confidently expected to take place soon :no longer, of course, upon the Potomac, but once more upon the Rappahannock. While such was the situation of affairs still between ►Washing ton and Ric:mood, between the main armies of the nde:als and Confederates, the siege of Charleston was yet persisted in, The Northerns were said to be moving upon Mobile, to have recently captured Brasbear City, to have begun a series of successes over the Confederates both in Kentucky and in Tennessee! How veraciously earl to have done and to be doing all this, we shall learn through our next jumble of fragmentary intelligence. 1 ! sen se to see that as they are bound to support a g reat proportion of these persons in one form or another, it is better by the expenditure of :a larger sum to secure a permanent good, to carry out works which will be highly conducive to the he alth, comfort, and convenience of the inhabi to nits of their towns, and which will remain when filo troubles of the present time have long been numbered with the past. The deplorahle effects of long-continued idleness are too well 'known not to enter into their consideration. On the one hand, the men employed will have the honfist satisfaction that they are doing fair work for than money they get, and feel themselves once more on their old in dependent footing ; on the other,, they and their families are left at the pauper leN'el, to srear all its depressing effects on the mind and body, and its demoralising influence morally. It was observed by several of the members of the committee yester day that it was most'impcirtant that the distinction should be preserved between the men employed on public works and the recipients of parish relief. There is likely to be some confusion on the subject unless this is plainly understood and impressed upon the men at the outset. Mr. FARNALL admitted the necessity of preserving the distinctio it w n,a o n o d ld sa b id o that ho had everywhere stated that necessary that the men employed on public works should be struck off the list of the guardians' and relief committees, and are r treatede glad that solely l y i s as u e isnt question pendent labourers. We has been brought to the surfaceeets would be before the lo w st or i k f begins, as half its good effects the employment were taken as a me re c h ar i ta bl e pretence. One very satisfactory fact was elicited in course of the discussion. It will be remembered that, when the matter was debated in Parliament, the proposed employment of factory hands on out door works was objected to on the ground that the change in their mode of working would be most prejudicial to their health. It was argued, with some show of reason, that men accustomed to the hot, dry air of factories would suffer greatly from the sudden transmission to c)ld, damp out-door work and exposure to the weather, and that rheu matism and a host of kindred evils would ensue. It seems, however, from Lord EGERTON'S testimony, that such is not the case. He had re cently, he told the meeting, visited a number of the 1 Stockport operatives whom he had employed in out-door work during the whole winter, and he was quite astonished at the improvement in their looks. They appeared to be better and stronger in every way, and they assured him that they were up to any kind of work. It is surely better to supply the healthy and able-bodied men with out-door work here, to fill up the vacuum, than to deport them across the seas to lands where they will probably have to undertake still rougher and more laborious tasks, and will grieve for the old home scenes while England is missing their labour. The struggle cannot be of much longer duration. Fortunately we are not dependent on the fluctuations of the American war. Th© numerous sources which are open to us in our own dominions, and which we have so long neglected, will very shortly come to our aid. By refusing to avail ourselves of the means which Providence has placed in our hands, we have, in a measure, brought this burden upon our people, but they have borne it nobly and well ; and, with the hopes gathering round the opening of another year, who would despair, even though we learn that the time of trial is not yet past ? reformed, shall be difficult to find." Of course this must be done abroad, and Mr. GILBERT mentions the Australian colonies as a suitable place for a reformatory settlement for married convicts. 'l'l3o northern portion of Western Australia is a very suitable place, it is mentioned ; and, as up to tt e present time ther e i s n ot an acre of ground inhabited A by us a tra w li hanitesellattalner'sit by ca m nn a o k t in b g e li a ke p l e y na to l o s ff et e t n le d m t e h n e t among them. From the inhabitants of Sydney, would be at the for instance, the settlement w dis tance from London to Constantinople. There are sure to be plenty of obstacles interposed in the carrying oat of this or any similar plan, but the facts here adduced speak for themselves, and call aloud for redress. The present system is unfair and cruel to the women and children, while it really imposes a heavy burden on the State. It is not in accordance with the principles of poli tical economy, and neither does it seem right or fitting that so many children should perish miser ably from want, and disease occasioned by want, or grow up to become thieves or dissolute characters. Those who do not agree with Mr. GILBERT'S sug gestion will nevertheless accord their recognition of the necessity of some means being devised to remedy this evil, and to ameliorate the condition of those who seem set apart by the rules of society to become thieves nolens volens. To take these outcasts at home to a country where employment is certain, old associations removed, and a new life put before them, is surely a safe means of remedy, and one that, though not certain to succeed, may in all human probability do so. Mr. GILBERT has a right to speak, for he has seen the miserable results and pernicious consequences of the present system, and therefore he has essayed to find a remedy for the glaring evils that are so constantly brought under his notice. It is highly requisite that the Legisla ture should do something about this anomalous condition of so many women and children. At present the seeds of vice are sown broadcast among the community, and nothing but evil consequences ensue therefrom. It cannot be impossible to pre- vent all this misery, crime, and death, end no diffi culties that are in the way should be allowed to be nsuperable. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS. Two evils Mr. Mellon has bad to contend with in renewing his excellent annual entertainment—the hot weather and the month of August —the one of which drives people from theatres, and the other drives them from town. The various merit, how ever, ho has assembled, and the force and skill with which he directs it, enabled him last evening to encounter these objections in a manner that gave the best assurance of the entire success of his experiment. Not a slight element in this result is his being able to secure again the superb arena of the Italian Opera as the scene of his exertions, where the requisite space is not more pre-eminent, and its attendant coolness and convenience, than the adaptation of the building to sound, and the agreeable influence of its noble proportions. The stall and pit . portions as before having been raised to a level with the stage—the orchestra, capable of containing one hundred performers, rises on the letter with its old aspect of a huge citadel of harmony, thronged with executants, who proclaim its influence over the crowds that swarm about it. All the other arrangments for the comfort of the public have been as carefiuly attended to—such as the ease of access to the promenade by a variety of entrances, the rows of seats placed before the orchestra for the accommodation of the weary, and the superior refreshments supplied by Mr. Brunetti on the stage, at the bides of the orchestra. The musical attractions of the night, however, were of course the chief consideration-- and these it will be seen were not to be regarded as either inferior or few. Mr. Mellon presented us, in the first place, with such a vocalist as Carlotta Patti. The great sense• tion which this lady created on her debut at this theatre in April last, as one of the most gifted and surprising singers of her time has been extended to every concert room in which she has since appeared, and to none more than the arena which so warmly confirmed her claims last night. Madlle. Carlotta Patti sung four times, and in evidence of her variety, in four different schools, Swiss, Italian, French, and English, in each of which she raised the audience to the highest point of enthusiasm. Her delivery of the Swiss Echo Song by Eckert, with its extra ordinary vocal resources—of the Rondo Finale of the Sonnambnla, "Ah non Giunge," with its profusion of embellishment—of the Laughing song from the " Mauon Lacaut," with its wonder. ful high note ; and last not least, of the simple British ballad, " ;.;owing through the Bye," which she gave in lieu of a repeat of the " Laughing Song" —and which had nothing striking about it but its perfectly simple and pure expression— had each its characteristic that found a warm response in the audience. The instrumental star of the evening was not less extraor dinary than the vocal, though scarcely to be classed with it, whether in respect to dignity or agreeableness. This was a Signor Gianni Vailati, who gave a performance on the mandolin, an old rustic Italian instrument, the precursor of the guitar, to which, however, it is as interior as an ancient tabor to a modern drum. In handling this very limited and imperfect instrument, Signor Vailati certainly exhibited a very striking amount of facility, and in the execution of comic and fan tastic music we can conceive his capability of producing some good effects ; but in the attempt he made last night of giving expression to the " Miserere,' from the " Trovatore," one of the most pathetic compositions to be found in modern opera—and which only the prolonged notes of a cornet or a violin can give any adequate idea of-- the rapid thrumming of Signor Vailati was not merely au incompetence, but what appeared to our selves and others as a something approaching to burlesque. For the remainder of the entertainment we have nothing but the highest praise. We had, among the other solo features, the " Fandango" of Herr Molique, admirably performed by Mr. Carrodus, who is rapidly taking his place as one of the first violinists of the day. We had a solo on the flageo let by M. Bonnisseau, which was equally striking and agreeable, and a selection from the “ Puritani," which gave scope to the several powersof Mr. Levy on the cornet, Mr. Hauser on the bassoon, Mr. Bar ret on the oboe, Mr. Liztrus on the clarionet, Mr. o S p id h n ec ey iei P d r e af te la n e on great es t t h efi ate' masters an d l‘ o l f r' their i u g r h e e s s p o e c a t the iv respective instruments that are probably to be found in Europe. Of the band , containing such solo talent, selected from that of the Italian Opera and the Musical So ciety, and amounting to more than 80 performers, all praiso would be superfluous. Theis execution of each of the substantial attractions of the night— the adagio and scherzo of Beethoven's Choral Sym phony, the International March of Auber, the Ex hibition Overture of Meyerbeer, the overture to " Frs. Diavolo," and Mr. Mellon's spirited Dramatic College Quadrille—was distinguisited by a lire and prsion, a mingled farce an d co l our, that could ' •-c; - not p os sibly bn exceeded. La ge a o tt l y s -, d l u e e t us to Mr. forget Alfred Mellon tbe whose vigour, taste, and judgment so much of the Band's success was owing, as well as the general arrange ments and impressions of the night. He has rarely sustained with more distinctness his claim to the position he has gained —as the very first of English conductors, and so l e successor to M r . C os ta. We must add that th e programme o f t h e wee k i s suffi ciently attractive. On Thursday we are to have a Mozart night —on F r id ay , t h e " Creation"—and on N . uate Y, s. a T night f: )r every one ' s heroes--1 1-(-' `?a& eto . wcuci .4..ore the night WAS over the h . Y.Li,?, to the reef. The Late Marshal Otidinot. Marshal Oaei cot , D ac d e Reggio, Almost immediately after the death of the late in the journals o f Europe, n a r our y s e t h e i t e e f: n c a e o s n n t a t e i n n r m p: e o g n r r c : ; I d m to a r t hh able h t e i l I s u t s a t t r e i o m e e s n t e o u l d f i t e h r. e 2im es , it b to this re was asserted Accordine quite confidently that the Due de Reggio deplored he had in point fact for some years last opinionswork o f o f restoratio nlar s h nl accomplished Oudinot, in 184.9. The announcement of these 4 a up to the moment of his death, as (it was said also) w b s y s him ,zonl at pa ß n o ie m d e , deer s e s v e e d r , had by breatheda poita blankhis s the previously, dying declaration fterhaving th r a ef t us t e h d e all the consolations of religion. In distinct and positive contradiction to each and all of these most singular, and (as will be immedi ately apparent) these wholly unjustifiable state ments, we are authorised by the Family of Marshal Oudinot to pronounce the assertions thus set forth by the 'limes in respect to that distinguished sol dier, to be utterly without one particle of foundation. This emphatic contradiction we hasten, therefore, to publish in the plainest terms possible, and, in the interests of truth, we are desirous that it should be at once frankly accepted as a contradiction com plete and unreserved. As we write this, there is now lying open before us an affecting communication, penned as recently as the 9th of this present month of August, by the nearest surviving relative of the deceased Marshal, namely, his own eldest son, the present Duo de Reggio. And it is upon no less an authority than this, that we herewith declare to be utterly groundless the declaration that Marshal Oudinot either re gretted his feat of arms in 1849, or that he expired but a little more than a month since, after having refused• to receive the consolations of religion. While enabling us to give this explicit denial to each of those statements, the present Duke de Reggio, in the course of the letter already referred to, as lying before us while we are writing, remarks in regard to the deceased, that there is not one of those who have approached him since 1849, who will not revolt from assertions so entirely contrary to truth. "My excellent father," says the now Due de Reggio, " was happy and proud of the services he had rendered to the church. This he avowed every clay. Every successive year ho wrote to the Sovereign Pontiff. He associated himself in heart, in spirit, in words, with the vivacity one might almost say of youth, with the efforts adventured upon in France and elsewhere for the defence of the rights and of the authority of the apostolic see"— and so forth. [non excellent 1••• re start heurcux et fier des services qu'il avait rendus a l'Elise ; et il lc disait cheque jour; it l'ecrivait cheque annes au Souverain Pontife s'asseciait de cceur, d'esprit, de paroles,avec une vivacite toute juvenile, aux efforts tentes en France et ailleurs pour la defensa des droits et de l'autorite du Siege Apostolique, tyre.] In signal corroboration, however, of these all sufficient assertions of Marshal Oudinot's son, the present Due de Reggio, there come to us simultane ously with the letter from which the above passage is transcribed, documentary evidences, of themselves quite unanswerable. An interesting report in the weekly journal, the Correspondence de _Rome, under date, Saturday, the 29th of July, gives, in all its details, a description of the funeral ceremonies performed, by order of the Sovereign Pontiff, on the previous day—that is, the 18th ult. —in the Church of Santa Audre della Valle, for the repose of the soul of the deceased Marshal Victor Oudinot, Due de Reggio. According to the narrative in the Correspondance de Rome, this solemn funeral service was performed with all imaginable Pomp and ceretr ony. It commenced at 10 o'clock in the morning. His Holiness was represented by his Excellency Monsignor Pacca, seated upon the right hand of the choir, together with Mgr. de Me ode, Mgr. Talbot, and Mgr. N o . grotto, Cammeneri Segretti, and officials of the Pontiff's anti-chamber. Near these prelates was placed the Prince de Viano, Commandant of the Noble Guard, as well as the superior officers of the said guard, and those also of the picturesque Swiss Guard. To the left was his Excellency the Senator of Rome, surrounded by a crowd of officials, there assembled together to pay the last tribute of respect t o th e d eparte d noble—who, it should be remarked, by the way, was not only a French peer and a marshal of the empire, but a Roman Patrician as well. Oudinot's name having been formally incribed, as a mark of peculiar honour, upon the Golden Book, sacred to the names of the patricians of the Eternal City. Near the fore going also were his Excellency the Commander in-Chief of the Army of Occupation, together with a brilliant staff—besides the General of Brigade Micheler, the Pontifical Generals Kalbermatteu, many other officers of both Brasehi, Zsppi, and armies. Monsignor Marinelli, Bishop of Porphyre and Sacristan of his Holiness, officiated pontifically at the high mass, and at the close of it gave the solemn asperging at the catafalque. Other particulars, indicative of the u nusual character of the solemni ties, solemnities, h e it remembered, ordered by the Pope), lengthen out the description beyond the limits here afforded by our columns, this afternoon, for quotation. We pass by the rest of these particulars , therefore, reluctantly, con tenting ourselves with giving here but one additional piece of documentary evidence, one, however, that must be accepted as, of itself, perfectly conclusive in reference to the opinions and sentiments cherished up to the last moment of his existence by Victor Marshal Oudinot, Dec de Reggio. The document herewith published being no other than the sub joined affecting letter, addressed by his Holiness, as recently as the 29th ult., to the deceased Mar shal's son and successor, the present Due de Reggio : , 6 Pius P.P. ix. " Dilecte fili nobilis vir salutern etipostolicum Denedic tionem. Maximo Nobis dolori fuit allatum Tuis literis o i c n i u o r rb a e i n s et constantiaru persiTctam . habuimus multis proeclarisue nuucium mortis egregii genitoris tui, cujus fidem, pietatem argumentis. Qum vit.. I.ortiseimus strenue gessit, ut urbem num erineret, et Apostolica3 Seth restitueret talibus sunt c manibus perditorum homi hhiasntocrPiwrinceoinPsei tis, ut nulls posAnt obliviono deleri. Curavimus plane, ut testimonio publico memoria Duds religiosiesimi honestaretur, simulque Mills anima piis juvaretur suilragiis ; veruna tantum Nos illi debere existimamus, quantum persolvere difficile sit. Sic enim in arduis rebus gerendis mandatum sibi creditum est exe mgneaatatiam°l quntus, ut vim vi repellere coactus sanctitati recuperandte urbis, et innocentium incolumitati consuleret. Confidimus itaquo fore ut amplissirea laborum merces ilium in mils maneat ; quay dum cogitae, ut re wrorem temperes hortamur, nee dolcas (ut Hieronymi vocibus utamur) quod talent antiseris ; sed guadeas quocl talent habueris. Eadem porro charitate, qus virum del , ctissimum prosequnti sumus, et familiam ejiss amplectirour; cujus rei signum indubium Apostolicaut Benedictionem Tibi, parenti optimm, Tursque omnibus peramanter impertimur. Datum Romu spud S. Petrum die 29 Julii, 1863. Pontificatus Nostri Anne. xviii. Pius P.P. IX. " WEBER'S LAST WALTZ," AND " PESTAB."—The real autborshipl—How long was a tune by Reis siger issued, edition after edition, as " \Veber's last waltz?" There was a melody called "Festal" published some years ago as the music of a condemned amateur, written on the eve of his execution, but afterwards claimed by a liv i ng composer. CHARLES DICKENS' LETTERS TO WASHINGTON IRVING.—Among the many interesting notices given by the editor of Irving and his contemporaries, says the London Reviewer, those relating to Dickens ought not to be passed over. He has preserved some very characteristic letters from our own familiar "Boz" which gives us some idea of the rich treat that must be enjoyed by those who may read his correspondence. In them, as iu all his writ ings, humour and patties go hand in band, and prove that if no cne ever laughed at men more than he, few also felt towards them so kindly, TIIE YANEEES' " COMIC HISTORY OF ROME"—. NOT A'BEOKETT . S.-- . -if any one wants to enjoy a really good honest laugh, let him read the lceto Jicrald's " classical" articles on the similarity between the history of Rome and that of the United States. The pre sent war it appears is like that in which the " Spolians" and " Samnites" were engaged with the Romans under Sulla, in whom there is a distinct resemblance traced to poor harmless General Scott I And the resemblance will be made complete when the United ones turn on France and England as the :Romans did on "Mithridates," and punish ing the,: , _ , e two miserable powers very much as the Pontine potentate was served, stands tdrth as the mistress of the world. 2 . ,20ta . :8 amit And yet there are, thou sands of New York, ra wh o rea d suc h trash over inflareau tory cocktails, and fancy thy ars Roman ci,iz-ns of a supe rior ;iaa t. atAa thia ihmeor , bojont to t'n'e capital ot amias QI fir=e earth,-4tiry aig‘ .4'avy fiaz,q;`,l, MMlMMiiiiiiimmi TEE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUG UST 11, 1863. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per the City of London.) NEW YORK, AUG. 1 (Morning). General Burnside has issued a proclamation. which says : "Kentucky has been invaded by the rebels with the intention of overawing the judges, in timidating the voters, and forcing the election of disloyal candidates at the election of Septem ber 3. " Martial iaw is therefore proclaimed in Ken tucky. " Military commanders will aid the State authorities to support the laws and the purity of suffrage. The judges present at the polls will be held strictly responsible that no disloyal person be allowed to vote, and to this end military power will give them its utmost support." An engagement is expected upon the Rappahan nock. The siege of Charleston continues. The Confederates have been defeated in Kentucky and Tennessee. Brashear City has been captured by the Federals, The Federa:s are moving against Mobile. (Per extra steamer, the City of Limerick.) NEW YORK, JULY 30 (Morning). The New York limes says that the army of the Potomac is again on the Rappahannock, at or in the vicinity of Falmouth. General Lee's forces are encamped between Culpepper and Gordonsville. He has assumed a defensive attitude. Ewell's corps is moving through the Shenandoah Valley in the direction of Fredericksburg. The recent active movements of General Meade's army will, it is said, be followed by its former inactivity. The Mayor of Savannah has issued a proclama tion, ordering the citizens to organise for its defence. It is rumoured that Chattanooga was captured on the 16th ult. The Florida was at Bermuda, coaling and . re pairing machinery, and had transferred half a mil lion of silver bars on board the blockade runner R. E. Lee, for Wilmington. Since June 18th the Florida is reported to have destroyed 12 vessels, including the brig W. B. Nash. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JULY 29 (Evening). Money easy at 6 per cent. Gold dull, 1271. Exchange firm, 140. Stocks active. New York Centrals, 127 . 1 ; Erie, 1023; Illinois, 1143, Cotton in good d emand—rniddling Upland, 62. Flour de clined 10c. Wheat also lower. Provisions un changed. Freights dull, with . moderate engage ments. (Per the City of London.) NEW YORK, JULY 31 (Evening). Ad vices have been received from Charleston to the 26th inst. The bombardment of Fort Wag ner continues. General Gilmore has erected a bat tery of heavy guns within 1,000 yards of Fort Wag ner. Fort Sumter and Fort Johnston upon James's Island aro keeping up a continued fire upon the Federals on Morris Island. The Federal casualties average about six daily. The Confederates refuse to exchange captured negro troops. Federal General Strong is dead. General Meade's army is on the line of the Rappahannock. It is rumoured General Meade will endeavour to prevent General Lee from re•occupying the Frede ricksburg Heights. The eleventh corps of General Meade's army has been broken up. 2,500 Confederates under Generals Pegram and Scott have crossed the Kentucky river, and attacked the Jederals at Paris, but were repulsed after two hours' fighting. The Confederates have retreated to Winchester, followed by the Federal cavalry. Morgan and his officers have been coi:fined in cells in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. The Evening Post says the Government has de termined to force the draft in New York. The amount of force employed will depend solely upon the exigencies of the case. The Southern journals recommend that if the decision in the case of the Alexandra be affirmed in England, the Confederates should promptly avail themselves of it to give a death-blow to the North ern Commerce, and strike some Northern cities. The steamers James Battle and William Bagley have been captured, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. COMM ERCI AI INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JULY 31, Evening. Money easy. Gold 23 per cent. premium. Ex change on London Ban kers' Bills, 141. S:ocks advancing. New York Centrals, 1281 ; Illinois, 1121; Erie, 1032. Six per Cent. United States Bonds. 104. _ _ Cotton, good enquiry. Middling Upland 62,1 to 63. _ Flour heavy ; wheat in good command for e z port; corn tending downwards. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar very firm. Molasses quie Crude Petroleum 311. NEW YORK, AUG. 1 (Noon). General Lee massed his forces at Culpepper on 'Wednesday, and prepared to give the Federals battle on the Rappahannock. One Confederate regiment guards the Rappahannock from Frede• ricksburg to Eley's Ford, on the Rapidan, which is fortified south of Culpepper. The New York World says the Federals goi possession of the heights in the rear of Fredericks. burg. Mosby's guerillas havo made a raid into Fair fax Court House. The Federal General Herron's division has left Vicksburg for Mobile. Grant's army has fallen back to Big Black River. Johnston is said to be reinforced by Bragg, and will make the Mobile and Ohio railroad from Okolonaon the North to Mobile on the South, his line of defence. General Gilmore reports his total loss in three days' fighting at 985. The Confederates in Kentucky have:been driven from 'Winchester towards Irvine. They also occu pied Stanford but were driven out with loss, and retreated towards the Cumberland River. The Confederates who were forcing the conscription in West Tennessee has been routed by the Federals 4t Lexington, with the lose of several officers and Nv , .. cannon. 411,3tzated patrols have been organised along the river from Vicksburg to New Orleans, Several more vessels have arrived at Now Orleans from St Louis. . The Federal Government is being strongly urged to repeal the tax upon invoices of goods sent from St. Louis to Ne Orleans. Brashear City has surrendered to the Federal gunboats. It is etioposed to have been evacuated. The military authorities of licntunky have at:men:wed that, if it shall be found necessary t o impt ;ss prq sl ty , it will 1* taken iirst from those persons opposed to furnishing more men or money to pct down the rebellion. General Pemberton and his of f icers have not been exchanged. The exchange of prisoners has been partly suspended. The New York Times says that the draught in New York will commence on Monday, the 3d inst., and that the Government is prepared for any emergency. A bitter controversy continues between the Re. publican and the Democratic press concerning the constitutionality and policy of enforcing the draught; also between the State and Federal officials who were engaged in quelling the late riots. The steamer Arabian has arrived at Nassau from Wilmington. Several vessels have returned to Nassau, being um.ble to enter Confederate ports. The Governor of the Bahamas has received in formation from Lord Lyons that the efforts to in duce the Washington Cabinet to withdraw prohibi tion to export live stock to Nassau were fruitless. The Florida was still at Bermuda on the 22d ult. taking fuel from the Confederate steamer Harriet Pinckney, the naval authorities having re fused to furnish her with fuel. News from Charleston to the 29th ult. states that General Gilmore has erected a line of batteries within 250 yards of Fort Wagner. Three heavy siege guns have been mounted within a mile and a quarter of Fort Sumter, and would open on that fort on the 29th ult. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 11. Russian troops are being concentrated at Gumri. The Porte demands explanations from the Russian Government on this account. The old seraglio has been totally destroyed by fire. The Inland Custom Houses have been abolish and an Octroi substituted. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 10.—The market still continues heavy, and e Sto.:k having been offered prices have receded—Threes, for the Account, being now at 67f. 15c. Railway Share Market dull, with a fall in some of the lines. The market closed as fol- OWS :- it per Cents 96 20 Italian L0an...... 71 90 Do. cad month Do. end month.... 71 85 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 67 15 I Do. end month — Credit Mobilier.... 1062 50 Russian ....... 91 50 Do. end month ....1058 75 Austrian • .... 84 Bank Shares 3365 Spanish Threes., Credit lender ....1235 home Debt RA ILWAYB. Cash. Account. OrleanH lOl7 50 .. 1015 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1017 50 .. 1016 25 Geneva 493 75 .. 499 Southern 685 .. 685 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lou.bard North of Spain Saragossa 6Bl 25 .. 680 Ditto to Barcelona THE FORCED LOAN IN POLAND, Art. 4. The financial department of the National Government is empowered by virtue of the present decree to negotiate the distributed obligations and to place them in the National Treasury. A corre sponding control will be maintained, an d the re demption of the debt, or the incorporation of it with the permanent debts of the country, W ill f ollow at the proper time. 4, A rt . 5. E ac h i ssue w i ll consist of obligations of the National Government of 500, 1,000, 5,000, 6110 20,000 florins, payable to the bearer, and will bear the signatures of the above -named members of the national debt commission and the seal of the Na tional Government. " Art. 6. Each obligation will contain the condi tions on which the loan is based, and the half -yearly coupons falling due on the Ist October and Ist April will be appended. " Art. 7. The Treasury Department of the Na tonal Government is empowered by the present decree to emit obligations for the first issue to the amount of 7,000,000 florins, and to receive the amounts in the course of 14 days from the date 01 the aviso in exchange for receipts, " Art. 8. The Treasury Department has the right of issuing the obligations by instalments according to their judgment, but they must, nevertheless, be limited to the period mentioned in Art. 7. " Art. 9. The receipts given by the Treasury De partment will be subsequently exchanged for the original obligations through the medium of the na tional organisation. " Art. 10. The persons taking up the first issue will not be called upon at succeeding issues. "Art. 11. The carrying out of this decree is en trusted to the respective national authorities. "L. S. - arsaw, July 5, 1863." THE CAPE OP GOOD HOPE MAIL. PENZANCE, Aug. 11. The Golden Fleece, from Calcutta, May 7, and Madras, May 28, has arrived. She brings Cape news to July '2, and a large mail, including the frontier mail, that arrived at Cape Town too late to be forwarded by the last mail steamer. An indignation meeting had been held at Port Elizabeth on account of the delay of these mails, bat no blame attached to the Post•ollice authorities. The long disputed boundary line between the Queenstown district and British Kaffraria had at last been settled. More Kaffir robberies have occurred on the fron tier. At Whittlesea they had perpetrated a daring robbery, leaving t WO Europeans for dead. The Synod or the English church at Graham's e the diocese. had b een opened by the Bishop of n diocese. Further particul:rs had arrived of the revolution in Madagascar, confirming the (minion that the asss.B:inati on of the King arose from a reactionary spirit among the people, and their suspicion of his too liberal tendencies and concessions to Europeans. Queen Robodo and her supporters had, however, not shown any symptom of reversing the King's tolerant policy. H.M.S. Gorgon left for Madagascar Jane 30. Pretorius resumed the Presidency of the Yolks. rand on June =7. . Business was ell' dull, and prices un a lt ere d , with the exception of Wool, which was declinit, The darner had artivcd on the 27th June, from Sydney, and the Clinese war steacuer Tieu-tsie, on T 2113 2o", from Digiand. WARSAW, August 4. The following is the text of the decree of the National Government upon the regulations respect. ing the first portion of the forced loan of 21 mil lion florins : " Taking into consideration that as the insurrec tion increases so do its wants; that it is right and proper that the expenses of this conflict with our arch enemy for independence should be borne by future generations, since our independence will be the basis of their welfare, and that the state of the insurrection offers sufficient guarantees that the National Government will be in a position to repay the funds entrusted to it as a loan, the National Government, on the recommendation of its finanotal department, decrees as follow : " Art. 1. The National Government borrows from the most wealthy capitalists of the country, for the purposes of the insurrection, a 5 per cent. forced loan to the amount of 21 million florins. " Art. 2. This loan will be effected in issues of 7,600,000 florins each, which will 113 set in course of exchange, according as they are required, by special decrees of the National Government. " Art. 3. A national debt commission of three persons is appointed, composed of Prince Ladislaus Czartoryski, Joseph Ordega, and Dr. Severin Ga• lezowski. The business of this commission will be —l. To keep a great book of the national debt; 2. To prepare the obligations and enter them in the great book ; 3. To control the obligations issued. ‘lytil 44r , 4 4, t rirer , l e i 'r,41,041 HER MAJESTY. The Prince and Princess of Wales. tifully in the afternoon, so that the Prince and Princess EtINS" the Highlands under the best possible circumstances. THE EMPRES3 EUGENIE will possibly soon carry out her long-cherished intention of visiting Rome. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON, we are informed, will, c ntrary to his usual habit, spend the lath of August, (Saturday next, at once the Feast of the Assumplion and (he Fete ..:19poie'on, at Paris, where it is expected that his Majesty will receive the Corps Diplomatique. The rumour recently whispered about to the effect that the Emperor Napoleon and the King of Italy were to have an interview at the camp of Somma, towards the middle of next month, is, we aro given to understand totally devoid of foundation. There is little probability of the Emperor being present at Cherbourg for the naval review (postponed till the Ist of September)—the proceedings at which review will include experiments on a grand new cannon breech-loader of great magnitude, the invention of his Majesty. THE KING OF HOLLAND has just now narrowlY escaped an accident in crossing the line of the Utre cht and Amsterdam Railway. where the horses of his carriage and part of the vehicle were swept off by an express train When the King of the Belgians and his family . arrived the other day at Ostend, the approach of the Royal train was announced by a salute of twenty-one guns from the battery near the terminus, and in ten minutes after his Majesty, dressed in the uniform of lieutenant -general, reached the Place, where he was hailed by a deafening shout of " Viva le Roil" THE CROWN PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA. will arrive on Saturday the 15th inst., at Tallemburg, to stay some time with the Queen of England. T area i t Interlaken. "k: d a very bra has passe THE PRINCE DE CONDE at Soleure, D U C D E NEMOURS and Princess Clem entine liant examination a t the school of under w officersthere with the in Switzerland. The Pvc D'AVAIALE 'rince during his examination. THE COMTE DE PARIS is travelling in Germany. THE Duc AND DTJCEIESS DE CHARTRES, binCe their return from their wedding tour in Scotland, have been staying with QUEEN MARIE AMELIE at Tunbiith..o Wells. PRINCE CZARTORYSKI will probably, it i s said, circle of friend s d u ring the send a reply to St. Petersburg- on the Russian notes. His E,,,ceilehey the Prussian Ambassador an d th e Countess de Dernstorff, who left the Prussian Embassy ear ly in the past week for Germany, have arr i ved at Carls bad. Ills e xcellency and the countess are expected to be a bsent about two months. Th e Duke end Duchess of RichmAnd and Lady Caroline L e nnox and family l e f t Bei , -- ~.rave-squaree - square on Satur day for Gordon Castle, Fochabers, I - N an d duchess will receive a large i .B. The noble duke res id e nce of the family at G or d on Castle. Die Duke and Duchess of Montros e and Lady Violet Graham have arr i ved s hire, from town, W h ere the at Buchanan Ca s tle, Stirling noble, duke and duchess will entertain a succ ess i on oi vij.ters during the shooting SCOSOII, `4lla L, e Dvlfe Park, near Bcdf f xl l4 .l, el . 7ter has gone on a visit to Mr. Geor , o • - ~ a nd . Lady Jane Re_pton, at Ou d de t l o l or ~ after which his grace will procee his seat iu Ireland. Inc Lir' Cowley left town last evening to re sume his duties as British Ambassador at. Paris, after a week's absence on leave in order to attend the funeral of his cousin, the late Earl of Mornington, and to he present at his son's marriage. Tile Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley left town yesterday aft ernoon for Spa, in Belgium. l 7 aecsurit Dangan has deff!rmined to retire from. the Coldstream Guards in consequence o•.' his marriage. Lord Land. Lady Southampton passed through town yesterday from Whittl:,bary Loc4;e, Northampton shire, on their way to Co es, Isla of Wig?-it, irx order to join his IQZCi2hip'e 3;acht, The Dowcgcr Princess of lAningen was one of the sponsors to the infant Pri cess christened at Osborn e on S un d ay, but was prevented being pre sent. • The names of Miss Byrne and Mr. Thurston, of the Royal yacht, should have :Ippeared in the lista the company. Mr. Truscott was not present. Prince and Princess William of Baden visited the Queen at Osborne on Saturday. Mr. Oswald Brierly has lied the honour of exhi biting to her Msjesty the sketches made by hull lately on board Her Majesty's ship Racoon. WINDSOP, CASTLE, Aug. 10. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice left Osborne this morning at 10 o'clock, end arrived at tha Castle at half -past 1 p.m. The suite consisted of the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Lieutenant. Genera! the Hon. C. Grey, and Lieu tenant-Colonel Du Plat. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred travelled with Her Majesty to Basingstoke, and thence proceeded to London, attended by Major Cowell. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise will remain at Osborne, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Horatia Stopford, and Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish. Lord Cremorne and Lieutetant•General Sir H. Bentinek have arrived as Lord and Groom in Waiting. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the C a pe of Good Hope, Gibraltar, Malta, Mauritius, Canada, and British Columbia. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Ceylon, Hongkong, and Labuan. The Prince and Princess of Wales left Perth en route for Abergeldie on Saturday forenoon, at 15 minutes past eleven o'clock. When the royal pair had taken their places in the railway saloon car riage, Mr. Greig, of Glencarse, presented to the Princess a bouquet of beautiful flowers, vehich her Royal Highness graciously acknowledged. The royal train left the station amid the enthusiastic and prolonged cheering of those assembled on the platform. At the Perth and Coupar-Angus stations, scarcely a person was to be seen. Indeed, it did not seem that many knew it was the royal train which was passing, for here and there at sidings, a little distance from a station, might be seen servants who never raised their heads when the carriages swept past. The royal train drove into the Ferryhill Jane" lion, Aberdeen, at two o'clock sharp. A s the train steamed into the junction a loud and hearty cheer was raised by the multitude, and immediately and very courteously acknowledged by the Prince. The cheering being repeated again and again, the Prince took the Princess by the hand and led her for ward, when she also graciously acknowledged the hearty reception given her. The Prince, who seemed in excellent health and spirits, conversed very affably with several persons in the station, but the Princess, it was generally remarked, looked pale, and as if somewhat wearied. The train re mained about ten minutes at the junction, when the Deeside Company's engine having been attached, an d the directors taken their places, the train mov ed out of the station amid loud cheering and the waving of hats and handkerchiefs. Except two or three minutes at Banchory, there was no further stoppage until the train reach e d Ab oyne, at about 3.l°' There was also a considerable number admitted within the station, and as soon as the Prince and Princess stepped out of the saloon carriage a loud cheer saluted them, which was repeated on their appearing outside. An open travelling carriage was wasting for them, and they immediately took their seats in it. A detachment of the Marquis of Huntly's Volunteers, under Captain Davidson, acted as a guard of honour here. After a few minutes' delay, the carriage containing the Prince and Prin cess drove off, loudly cheered. The nest stoppage was at Ballater, where the horses were changed. A triumphal arch had been erected here, with the motto, " Welcome to High land Hearts and Homes." A number of the Far quharson clansmen also turned out to meet the young Royal couple, who were received very warmly. Abe rge ldi e Castle—which has been re cently re-decor a t e d and furnished anew for the Prince and Princess —was reached at 5.30. The Princess wore a Victoria tartan poplin dress, a s hort lavender-coloured jacket, and white straw bonnet. The weather, which was rough and somewhat rainy in the early part of the day, cleared up bean ..n