The Sun. — London, England, 1863-07-28 00:00:00

T ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited). Ir morporatel under the Comnanies' Act, 1852, by which the Lia.bility of each Shareholder is strictly limited to the amount of his Shares. Capital .C 50,000, in 25,000 Shares of' £lO each. First Iss (With power to increase to O ne Milli on St er li ng. ) ue 12,500 Shares, whereof a portion will be reserved Deposit for India. £1 p , :r Share aplication and £1 on a Calls not to exceed £2 per Sh p are, with , an interval of llotment. not less, three months between each call. DIRECTORS. Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.8., Chairman, late J2 j eut enan t. Governor of Ben g al, Col onel Ander s on, C.B., Director nr the Ea r :tern Bengal Rail way Company. George Constable, Esq., Firm of. Henderson and Constable, Cannon- , treet, Sir Frederick Curri.e. Bart .1% Colonel French, Cliairmau :ember of the Council o f I n di a . way Company. ,f the Bombay and Baroda Itail- Colonel 11°114 " , Direct.or of the Agra and United Service Bank. John - .tewart, Es (1 , -- Director of the Marine Insurance Com pany. John Hobert TT Jornson, South African B an k . Esq., Chairman of th e L on d on an d James 'Henry • toting, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service. T. R. W AUDITORS. alke , -, Esq., 21, Hanover,suare A Sha reho I ,fer, to be elected at the q First ,and General Meeting. BANKEB.ii IN LONDON. The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon street, The London and County 'Bank, Hanover-square, W. The A lIN".KERB IN INDIA. A g ra SO. Uni ed Service Bank (Limited). llessrsnß~ soLICITORS. Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin- riars, E.O Francis Bur . nr , nd, Esq., 78, Lomb BROKER ard-street, and 13 and 14 County-chambers, Cornhill, E.C. SECRETARY (pro tem.) Macdonald Yates, Esq. Temporary Offices :-31, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parli went-street, Westminster. The deficiency of Hotel accommodation inl bndibval resort China,, numbers, and other place's in the East to which Europeans in large and annua ll y i ncreas i ng is a subject of general eCnn.pl,int ; and it is evident that am a t t h e ede e v r e s l . o a p n m d e b n y t of the means of transir by ocean andriver railways., which has been in rapid progress now for some years, must imperfectly fulfil all Ps important objects, so far as European intercourse with the East is conc.rned, until this *want is adequately supplied. In. England, and on the Continent of Europe, it is now an aseortained fact that the joint-stock system may most sue cesimfully be applied to the establishment of Hotels of the li•rst class. If this be so where good private Hotels before existed in large numbers, there seems no reason to doubt 'that an equal degree of commercial success is attainable by the application of capital, upon the same system, to the same object, in countries where, though the demand is great and increasing, it may almost be said that good private Hotels do not exist. In Calcutta a joint-stock company has lately purchased and undertaken the management of an Hotel, and the pro spects of the enterprise, as a commercial speculation, may be inferred from the very high premium at which their shares are quoted in the Calcutta market see "Times" July 17, the "Englishman' s W eekly Mail " of June 8, 1863, and "Allen's Indian Mail," viz., £25 paid, present value, £42i ex div., equal to 70 per cent. premium, and the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent, for the half-year ending 30th April last, equal to 20 per cent. per annum. Bombay offers a wide field for the establishment of an Hotel of a firs , class character. The early completion of vast lines of railway converging in the island of Bombay, and the more frequent steam communica tion between that port and Europe which will soon takT Place, must very much increase the demand for such accom modation. The sam'Ai may be said of Madras. It is under these circumstances that the Oriental Hotels Company rLinlited) is established, in the confident belief that the application rit European capital to India in this form will not be less prostable than useful. It is proposed, in the first instance, to Fiupply the urgent requirements of Bombay and Point de Galle. There are equally important places Which will naturally engage the early attention of the Company, such for ex ample as Madras, Singapore, and Kurrachee ; not t° s peak of many very i mportant railway stations in the in terior of Indi a, where there are now no Hotels at, all, and Ivhere, at a comparatively small outlay, there is a. large field for nrofitab e opetationa. convThe largerclass of the Company's Hotels win afford all the eniences of the b est E uropean Hotels, adapted to the mate, and to the hsbits of those for w i .dom they are in tended; whilst, in even the smallest class, the health and comfort of the inmates will be carefully 'studied. It is int ended to constitute local comraittees of management an each Presidency where Hotels maw> be established. lii the event of tyro-thirds of th being subscribed for, no allotmer,t will take place, and the e first issue of shares not deposits will be returned to the subscrib.rs, without deduc tion. It is proposed to il, upon the capital as '-y to Glared. _and .,u f p until the P. nareholders 5 per cent. interest paid yr.',first dividend is de- Prospectuseshad on application 4 .,., ° ,".as of application for shares may be tary.Abe Bankers, the Broker, or the Secre- F° " OP A PPLICATION FOR SHARES. o, be retained by the Bankers. THE oRIPINTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited). To the Direers of the Oriental Hotels Company (Limited). Gentlemen -," named Cr • ''''aving paid to the Bankers of the above you will allot s , I hereby request that bageraeielototertaoTlY the 'iunl sh o a f re l s in the said Company ; and I accept such shares, or any s nailer number that may and, I authorise you to become a Member of the Company, Members in respect of the shares to be allotted to me, and I to place my name on the Register of Mligree to be bound by all the conditions and regulations con ed in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the - •te ui P a nY in wanner provided by " The Companies Act, ......,2a ' Peru_ndertake to pay the balance (if any) of the Deposit of £2 ;Tic,,snare on the shares allotted to me within ten days after e of allotment, and in default thereof, 1 authorise you to Ila cel the allotment, and I agr,e that the Deposit paid shall be f 0.4 i , ~ e tea to the Company. '' - ' 4 Y`d this day , 1863. Name in full Firm (if any) Business or Prof wion Place of Business Residence .. C E f I iEBRA.TiON of the 'TERCENTENARY of A von '"e„,BIRTII of SHAKS, CE ARE, at Stratford-upon -I‘l-. oT ri ' 3, ' Tercentenary ',lommittee (of which Sir Robert ino.-varraniiiton, Bart , KA; 8.. is Chairman) are now reedy new° ZBSERIPTION": 'and they may also be paid to the and Kid' of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge , derminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, 'Eratinr re en , -11 1 )0 n - 4,von Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Sh-aY, Wa:MviCk ; or their I ondon agents, Messrs. (li n ' % a nte. and co , London anburys and Co., or Messrs. al---_____22__CL.L.. nankers, Name. School. Monu mental Memorial. General Fund for opening gardens and celebration of Festival. , Hon. Lord Leigh •G- P . Flower. Esq. 11Iayor ... . , Zir R. Bar N. C. C .B Hamilton, _ t, K.. .•. • • • Rev. G. Granville C. IT. Brucebridge It. H. Hobbes 0. Edgar Flower Charters E.. . Flower R. M. Bird . E. Gibbs • ......... Tho mpson and Col bourne ......... W. Gibbs, Alveston. W. Lowry James Cox and Son J. J. Nason IT. Samman W. J. Harding, Bara set. . ........ C. F. Lo . W. L. Norris.. C, T. Warde,Clopton W. Greener ........ John Lane . Robt. Walker John New . . John Bachelor John Baldwin, Lad dington R. Gibbs NI C. A shwin J. and G. Callaway Chas Thomas . J. C. ,Tones, Loxley T. S. Burman W. Pearce ......... G. 'r. Smkth, Goldi cote....., H. P. K.. Peach Idli cote Orowdy, Billesl e y H. J. Starkey, Rhine hi • I J. R. West, Alscot- Park Charles Lucy T. 11, Lucy H.• P. Shirley L s. d. 10 10 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 2 2 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 10 10 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 o 1 1 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 ti 0 0 The Tercentenary CI lion list to the nation, of Shakspeare for thei rest their claims upon the birthplace of Shak all admirers of the gr home, the town he luv £ s. d. 50 0 0 ,5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 5 5 0 10 10 0 10 10 0 210 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 52 10 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 10 0 10 10 0 10 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 p 6 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 'ommittee, in submitting the subscrip . most earnestly appeal to the admirers ir aid and assistance. The Committee the ground that Stratford is not only cspeare, but the centre of attraction to neat Poet's works, and that it was his red, and where he lived and died... ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, in the i mmed i ate vicinity of Gray's-inn-road, the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's cross. Patron—Tte QUEEN. President —The Du' Ae of BUCCLEUCIT, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first h,,Apital to introduce the principle of free and instant admissl'on to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governo'zs' letters. Its entirely devoted to desti tution in its mot pitiable form—viz., that which is aocom pcnied by s!e'Aness an d disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude tnat, with adequate supp or t , it may b e rendered capable of r,dmitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds ir, order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly hoard feel it their imperative duty to make an RARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily p resr,nt themselves. C " t rPoutions are received by the Treasurer, Edward ~,, 45 " man, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Dr ummond and Co. ; Herr i es an d C o. ; R ansom an d C 0... Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn d . Co. ; , tones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison said Co. ; lliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool And at the HospitaL STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. InAR BRES ONYX d'ALGERTE.—One , Thousand objects made from this beautiful marble, in comprehending, every variety of work of decorative art, Including clocks, candelabra, vases, gueridons, inkstands, azze, card trays, jardini e r es , porte- b ouquets, lamps, ring ands, Ric., are now being exhibited in the Onyx Salon, at A-lessrs. 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(~..,,,..... ?.... AIYOP '4.4 "k ' ' ...s N.,44: , ; i v ) e v. p •t it glia i ., - 1,4 dlir,, ,i, '....- ~ : 2:V . , , dl . ! *'' •"- , l td. -N.— ,4- , t, -..--- ~,11 1" '',.• on , `,...,'" 1 , ,t .. .. x 3 () j.p . lii ,.. . a. _.,--a,, e i.: , -, ~, ......,64. . c.,.. Dr E 1 .4 %,...' " t:,,6 ) 1 , 1.- -e,• A e. • , DROIT. . . . , ... ,t t , r,Rp. i, • . -..4d. STAMPED other Government on earth save that which at Washington lavishes its millions in vain, and re joices a Winchester disasters aeach enablingus those t a to t issue C . h a fresh n ee l lor s e v o i l n i e treets to a few blood -sucking contractors, who clamour loudly anti lead on a blinded and mis guided populace to elatacazr not less loudly for a continuance of this hapsiess and miserable war. The whole loss of the Confederatw, in killed, wounded, and missing, was less than 200. It will be belied that the news of the surprise of Winchester and the capture of about 5,000 oat of General Milro:;'s enl ire force of 7,000, and of all hoafersNfoorrtslle Pennsylvania . ,veral past days to wag gons, awl artillery, although dis guied behind unusu all y General magnifi a c n e d n , t a m bo e l n .e d a a l c l i , t t y o , ly across the Lee and his army. Simultaneous at Boones borough,Potomac, fixing his head-quartersg h inPEwell, and thwh a i ase v s e has3. l. Hooker,sos e traee n :sr ci a ran r el fromvb Governorw a c tp o op m te for table , and to have been there for some days has he squatted, rec eivin g large profound M i a g r n y o l r a a n n d c , e a d w v h a e n r c e e d t G o e n. find General supplies of horses' forage and all manner of provi sions from Generals Jenkins and Imboden, who have not been idle since they arrived in Pennsyl vania and Maryland. It is known here that consi derable damage has been done to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Gen. Imboden, which, for about the tenth time since the commencement of this war, has been torn up, and has had its bridges destroyed. It is understood that Gen. Imboden destroyed a large wrought iron bridge near Cumberland, which it had previously been difficult to damage, by firing round shot out of a 6-pounder gun at the girders and props, and breaking down the whole fabric into the stream (called, if I mistake not, Patterson's l v n niedsau f ean e drul d ieeat e , tlt r tywwh a e atrwihelt. within hGh a hß v ai ehnu a vna s l tet. r w y ri Let to m aoei ods a eha y b,seeyev h ds ii a dmro v yref e euonttup penetrated o Pennsylvannia will be a b r i e f agony — a sor t o f nzau e Northern papers, which, in o ur p resen t p os iti on , Creek) which the bridge used to s p a n. How far probably not without exaggeration, lon g before the Confederate h io Ani cation in Washington, th a t th e expecta ti ons gene vrr e a a a l i s c y h g e u u n a s t r e a t r b c u a , arrival itnhteo aPc teinv o ne f sur mounted by terrified militiaman—is likely to prove a delusion. Nothing can at this moment exceed the deliberation of Gen. Lee's movements. It was necessary after the army left Culpepper to lose no time in seizing the gaps which I have mentioned above; and during the march of the 16th, 17th, and 18th inst. the men, driven forward with all possible speed, suffered terribly by reason of the intense heat. On the 17th the glass stood all day at 92 deg. On the 18th, from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m., it touched 98. It will be imagined that dozens of men fainted and fell, smitten down by the sun, and were by their comrades, according to the never-failing rule in all armies, instantly reported dead. Although there were undoubtedly many such sunstrokes, I have not as yet heard of any that terminated fatally. But if the Confederates during those three trying days suffered grievously, it is evident from the accounts in the Northern papers that the sufferings of their enemy were far more severe. Marching, as were the Confederates, along the Blue Ridge, they found abundant springs of cool and excellent limestone water, whereas the march of the Federals was over one of the thirstiest plains in Virginia—a district which last year retarded the foot cavalry of Stonewall Jackson for several days, and delayed the discomfiture of the bombastic Gen. Pope, and which, upon the 17th and 18th instant, doubtless took ample toll from the host of Gen. Hooker. It is in such marches that the reckless wastefulness of the Federal soldier, springing from the facility with which he gets new clothes, a new knapsack, and canteen, whenever he calls for them, is abundantly portrayed. How many thousand dollars worth of clothing, blankets, overcoats, and oil-cloths strewed the plain on such a day as the 17th of June it is not necessary to compute, but enough in all probability to have enabled such an economist as Frederick the Great to support one or two months of war. Upon the afternoon of the 18th a tremendous thunderstorm, accompanied by deluges of rain, brought us relief, and since that time the weather has been unpleasantly cool. C- THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. The New York papers publish full details respect ing the siege and surrender of Vicksburg. The first attempt to take the town was made on the 18th of May, 1862, when Admiral Farragut put in an ap pearance before it with the Federal fleet, imme diately after his capture of New Orleans. The Confederates, who had foreseen their (larger, had made haste to fortify themselves. Their position was then so superior to Admiral Farragut's power for assault that this attempt failed. The next attempt was made in the following December, when, Gen. Grant having reached Yallabusha, on his way to central Mississippi, sent General Sherman with a large corps to operate against Vicksburg. After some desperate fighting, the Federal forces were driven back with considerable loss. The third effort to reduce Vicksburg commenced in Febru ary of the present year. General Grant, having withdrawn his army from the interior, landed opposite the place, with Young's Point as his depot of supplies. A number of strategic movements ensued, most involving desperate conflicts and heavy losses, until at last, on the 18th of May, just a year after the place had been first menaced, it was regularly approached, and the Federal lines drawn round it. Admiral Porter, with his fleet, guarded the river way, while land works were constructed in opposition to the fortified positions of the Con federates. On the 19th of that month one of the besieging brigades assaulted what was thought to be the weakest part of the enemy's line of defence. The place, however, proved to be immensely strong , and the division was driven from the works with frightful loss. Another attack followed on the 22nd. After a daring attempt to get possession of the works, the Federals were obliged to fall back with 3,000 of their men hors de combat. The Northern generals considered after this terrible lesson that the city could not be stormed ; it was, therefore, determined to reduce the position bysiege and parallel works, a course which, though u ltimately successful, p e . n s t ix in a o l f l_ m d e i n d and money. Day after day —forty e cost the Federals a larg e ex siege proceed, one-half of the force digging whil e the other protected . The first mine was bl own up and, after a sanguin ary en cm the 25th of June, gageme nt, the Federals obtained partial ad vantages. Th ey co ntinued their mining until the pl ace surren Bored. This description o. their works had ad vance d so far when the place fell into their hands that they co uld have blown up a large portion of it. The min i ng was only discontinued a short time before the surrender, w hen the Federals captured despatches which convinced them that famine would soon effect the object they had in view. When they discovered the extremily to which the brave garrison and the inhabitants were reduced, they relaxed their efforts, a sufficient demonstration being kept upon the lines by the Federal riflemen, and an occasional can nonade. Their sea force also had a splendid com mand of the doomed city, with long-range guns. Some 100 pounder Parrott guns, with a range of three and a half miles, were very serviceable, the flight of shells being tolerably accurate at that distance. On the Ist of J uly the Conf.derate fire slackened considerably. There was a complete lull during the day, and as night set in only a ran dom discharge from the front batteries. Notwith standing that despair a t their position was the n spreading itself in the ranks of the garrison, they boldly repelled eve ry attempt which was m a d e t o positions, besides keeping capture either of their themselves busily employed in running countersaps to the mining of the besiegers. Perhaps the only noticeable feature of the last day of siege was the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1861 EDINBURGH (Reduced Fares), from Irongate- I wharf, Tower.—Saloon, 20s ; fore cabin, 15s; deck (soldiers and sa il ors only), 75 ; return tickets (available for a month), 30s and 22s ed. The cheapest and quickest sea route by the splendid new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON and EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the Spread Eagle, Regent-circus ; or at Irongate-wharf. 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Corry Connellan and Mr. John Len taigne), which has just been issued, contains some interesting statistics. Although on the Ist of Janu ary, 1863, the number of prisoners of all classes exceeded those in charge on the corresponding days of the four years imn.ediately preceding, they did not amount to one-third of the aggregate number confined on the Ist of January, 1851. In 1862 there was an increase over 1861 of 2,344 male and 365 female prisoners. The daily average number of prisoners presents an increase of 252 males and 12 females. Tho convictions of 1862 exceeded those of 1861 by 1,818, being 27,266 against 25,448. While the con victions of females at both assizes and quarter ses sions increased by only 8 per cent., the conviction of males increased 17 per cent.; of the males 22 per cent_ had undergone mere than one imprison ment, and of the females 37 per cent. had been more than once committed to gaol. Sentences of death and penal servitude were passed in 1861 upon 353, and in 1862 upon 595. Of six sentenced to death two had their sentences commuted. More than a third or those who endured the punishment of penal servitude were sentenced for three years and under. Only three were sentenced for life. Four-fifths of the whole number sentenced to terms of imprisonmene were for periods not exceeding a month, affording but an average duration of detention for each prisoner of 11 days and seven hours. The religious professions of pri soners were found to be nearly what they had been the previous year—that is, Church Protestants, 10.39 per cent. ; Presbyterians, 2.61 per cent. ; Roman Catholics, 83.3 per cent. ; " not ascer tained," 0.7 per cent. The gaols have been generally healthy, and the inmates free from contagious disease. The total expenditure on gaols in 1861 was £77,714, and in 1862, £84,229. The profit on works reduced these amounts about £2,500 in the former year, and about £3,000 in the latter. The aver age cost per annum of each prisoner was £26 18s. 6-A—rather lees than the previous year, the difference being caused by the increase in the number of prisoners. The inspectors state that every one of the abuses with regard to the treatment of lunatics detailed in their last report is still in force. They are still brought to gaols tied down with ropes on cars, and among the numbers committed from Union work houses sometimes very distressing cases occur. The prosecution for slander against Mr. John Rea by Mr. Lytle, late mayor of Belfast, commenced on Saturday, Mr. Rea pleaded his own cause, and he began by objecting to the judge, Mr. Justice Hayes, as disqualified for trying the case, in conse quence of something which he did as Solicitor- General years ago. Mr. Brewster, Q C., protested against the course adopted by Mr. Rea, and the judge disallowed the objection. The case is still pro ceeding, and will probably last for several days. A very remarkable libel case was tried at Nenagh last week before Baron Hughes and a special jury. The action was brought by Mr. Spring Rico, to recover damages for an alleged libel published in the Limerick Reporter by the Rev. Thomas Ryan, P.P. It appeared in the form of a latter signed " One of the People." It stated that an investi gation had been held at Mr. Rice's house, when the following astounding particulars came out :—A threatening letter had been found on his premises warning him to prepare for death in consequence of evicting a family. He sent for the police, and seemed greatly alarmed. But it was stated in the libel that the letter was written to Mr. Rice, at his own instigation, by Bridget Duane, his parlourmaid. It was to repel this foul charge the action was brought. The maid was produced on the trial, and deposed that she did write the letter under her m as t er ' s di rect i on, as state d i n the libel, and also a letter to herself, as if from a lover in Kilkee. The latter was intended to cor roborate a statement which he desired her to make —that she wrote the first in the hope of fright ening the family back to Kilkee. Mr. Rice was examined, and positively contradicted her evidence He was corroborated by Mrs. Rice. Baron Hughes charged the jury to the follow ing effect:—" The Rev. Mr. Ryan had undertaken to satisfy 12 gentlemen upon their oaths that the charge he preferred against Mr. Spring Rice, by his letter of the 19th of July, 1862, was true. What evidence had been given to establish his jus tification ? None, in point of fact, with one ex ception ; and yet they were asked by defendant's counsel to affirm the truth of the charges made against Mr. Rice upon the sole evidence of Bridget Dunne. Her own counsel were obliged to admit that she was a clever and an artful girl. She was admittedly the author and composer of those docu ments, which the jury could take into their box and most carefully consider. The first was a threatening letter, the second a love-letter, pur porting to have been written from Kilkee, and the third a confession. It would be the duty of the jury to look into the contents of these documents, and consider the dissimilarity of the handwriting in the love-letter from the other papers written by this girl. They would form their own opinion of her capacity, and say, from what had taken place, and from the demeanour of the witnesses who had been examined d ur i ng th e t r i a l, w h ere th e truth lay. Hi s l ordship added, in reference to the ques tion of dam ages, that while the jury would ta k e into aecount th e serious nature of the libel, they would also b ear i n mind that the defendant was only a parish priest, and the incomes of parish priests were u sually small." The jury returned • a verdict for the plaintiff, with £2O damages, and 6d. costs. At the same assizes Philip H ayes was tried be fore Mr. Justice O'Brien for shooting at Mr. Gore Jones, with intent to mu rder him, on the 2d of January, 1863. Mr. Jones, who is a resident magis trate of long standing, det • ailed the circumstances of the case, and identified the • prisoner as one of t wo men whom he saw behind a ditch when a gun was fired at him while riding along the road from Thurles. He immediately pulled up and said, " You scoundrels ! I know you, and I'll make you pay for this." The men then ran away through the fields, and he rode after them through a lane, which ended in a bog. He was obliged to return, and they escaped. Two holes, as if made by a bullet, were visible in the loose Inverness cape which he r wore at the time. The witness was severely cross examined by Mr. Curtis. Other evidence having been given, the jury retired. They were locked up all night, and discharged the next day, not being able to agree to a verdict. At the Mayo Assizes John M'Gregor was con victed of having acted as a ringleader in the riots which occurred in the town of Castlebar on the evening of the 10th of March, during the rejoicings for the Prince of Wales's marriage. He was seen marching through the streets at the bead of a mob, who halted opposite the houses of those whose loyal displays displeased them, and, in obedience to nega tive but well-understood di] ections from him, dis charged volleys of stones at the windows. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Ewell. As it was, the whole operation was timed andite hostgiv wenheffieh takes eatoas andt i h ts ou in g 3 h pi t r h a e ti l e a ti rg f e rena e Lee were moved by machinery. The march of Gen . Ewell against Winchester was swift, silent, and successful; the occupation of the three great gaps i n General P s ° the mountain range was timed to a minute, In vain did General Hooker start off a body of his cavalry to race for the possession of the northernmost road through Soickcr's Gap. They found General Fitz hugh Lee already in possession, and behind him one of the finest infantry divisions in the Confede rate army. In vain did the Federal cavalry and General Pleas-inton race for possession of the nest, or Ashby's Gap, supported by a large boiy of artil lery and infantry. There they found Gen. Stuart and his cavalry thrown out in advance of the Gap at a little place called Aldie, and here, on the 17th and 19th inst., there were fierce skirmishes between the antagonists, in the latter of which a Prussian officer named Major von Borcke, the chief of Gene ral Stuart's staff, wal known to and much esteemed by all English visitors who have recently repaired to General Lee's army, received a severe wound from a bullet in his neck, which passed between the trachea and oesophagus and lodged in the muscles at the back of the neck. It cannot be denied that the wound is a very serious one, but up to the 21st inst., although the bullet could not be found, the Major's condition was favourable and no bad symp toms had arisen ; but on the 21st the Federals had advanced as far as a small town called Upper ville, in which the Major was lying, and there is much reason to fear that he was yesterday taken prisoner. It will be understood that Upperville and Aldie are considerably in advance of—that is to say, to the east—of Ashby's Gap, and that General Lee is only too anxious to draw the Federals on into the gap. For this purpose General Stuart has been unsupported by any infantry, and has constantly fallen back to draw his opponents on, In this there is little chance of his being successful, as the gap could be held by one brigade against the whole of General Eooker's army. Thirdly, at Chester's Gap the road which traverses the mountain near Front Royal has been seized by General A. P. Hill, and with these three gaps in his possession, General Lee can hold them if he pleases with insignificant bodies of men, and behind the screen of the moun tains can play any pranks that he likes, unseen by and beyond the reach of the baffled General Hooker. Although from my past experience of the long delay which intervenes between the expedition of each of my letters and its arrival in England there is little encouragement to report facts of which some knowledge, though perhaps an imperfect one, will have reached your readers at least a month before their perasal of this letter, and though I am consequently thrown back upon mere comments upon those facts, it may perhaps be not without interest to them to learn the exact particulars of the attack of " Stonewall" Jackson's veterans, under the leadership of the one-legged General Ewell (his other leg having been left onithe field at the second battle of Manassas), upon the little city cf Winchester. Frequently during these last few months has the cry of agony extorted by General and Mrs. Milroy from the unhappy resi dents of Winchester reached General Lee's ears, but something has always intervened to distract his attention, and to prolong the tenure of General Milroy's sway. At length, when the time for medi tating an advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania seemed at hand, Gen. Lee resolved to anticipate the movement of his entire force by launching General Ewell and his corps swiftly and suddenly against Gen. Milroy. It the Federals lacked any further evidence how odious and abhorred is their presence in the eyes of the Virginians, let them seek it in the circumstances which accompanied the advance of Gen. Ewell. From Fredericksburg to Winchester, a distance of more than 90 miles—through many hamlets and villages, and through a country which, for Northern Virginia, may be called densely peo pled—Gen. Ewell and his 25,000 men silently made their way, and throughout that whole distance neither man nor woman was found to carry to Gen, Milroy warning that Nemesis was at hand. The first s.ntimation that reached the Yankee tyrant of his enemy's approach was the fire of Gen. Ewell's advanced guard upon the pickets of the Federals. It will be believed that it was not long before the Yankees, finding themselves in presence of a largely superior force, fell back into the town, and if Win chester, instead of being on Virginian, had been on Pennsylvanian soil, the matter would probably have ended upon the first day—the 13th inst.—by Gen. Ewell's desiring the women and non-combatants to pass out through his lines, and shelling the town until Gen. Milroy and his men surrendered. As it was, Gen. Ewell, wishing to get his enemy out of the town, left open for him a bolt hole into two large forts which overhang the town, and thither, at a very early hour in the morning of Sunday, the 14th of June, Gen. Milroy and his army, perhaps 7,000 strong, hastily repaired. Upon the previous day it was intimated to General Ewell that unless Milroy was permitted to mareh out with all his stores, cannon, and ammunition, he had resolved that he would burn the town. Learning this General Ewell made known that if the torch was applied he would burn up all the Federals by driving them back into the flames, and that if any of them escaped he would hang them on the spot. Gaining nothing by this motion, General Milroy earnestly addressed himself to the consideration of the best method open to him for escaping, and, doubtless, although the exact details of his escape are un known, he displayed much ingenuity in rescuing his neck from the halter. It is believed that in civilian dress, and accompanied by some 2,000 men, he struck out of the town by an old country road in the direction of Charlestown, a place which lies on the road from Winchester to Harper's Ferry, and which gained some celebrity a few years ago as having witnessed the trial and execution of the famous John Brown. It was at a very early hour on Monday morning that General Milroy's escape was made, and there is little doubt that the com mand of General Johnson, to whose care was com mitted the guardianship of the road in question, was partially taken by surprise, and was broken through before Milroy and his companions could be stopped. Be this as it may, it is certain that Mil roy escaped, nor is it less certain that if he had been taken alive he would have forfeited his life, having, like General Butler and others, been put hors le roi by President Davis's proclamation. To return to Sunday, the day preceding the escape of General Milroy : I have mentioned that most of the Federals in the town betook them selves to the two forts which impend over it, and thence they threw shells actively against the Con federates during the whole morning. A little after midday the Confederates, having planted their guns upon a hill, which was pointed out to me last Octo ber by Colonel Wolseley as dangerously command ing the two forts, opened fire briskly upon them, and under cover of their fire the Louisiana brigade advanced to storm. Dashing gallantly forward with the fire and elan specially charac teristic of the soldier of Louisiana, they carried two cut of the three bastions without sustaining more than a trifling loss, and drove the Federals headlong out of the forts. Of these fugitives no less than 3,000 were taken prisoners about f our miles from Winchester, on the road t o Martinsburg, where they were intercepted by a strcng Confederate force commanded (if I mistake not) by General Rhodes, and from 1,200 to 1,500 more were cap_ tured in the neigh bourhood of Martinsburg itself, more than 100 officers being included among the prisoners. Thirty pieces of artillery, between 100 and 200 waggons, large commissary, clothing, an d medical stores, and about 400 horses) the rest hav ing been pressed into the service of aiding the flight of the terrified Yankees) fell into the hands of the Confederates in the town of Winchester—a weighty loss according to the computation of any AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Sunday. Tho royal mail steamer China, Captain Ander son, from New York on the IGth inEt. (having been detained from the 15t1 fair despatches), arrived here about five o'clock this afternoon. The annouccement of the fall. of Port Hudson is given in the following telegram, published in the Richmond Examiner of the 14th inst.:— " Mobile, July 13. "To General Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector- General " The New Orleans Era of the 10th announces the unconditional surrender of Port Hudson at seven o'clock on the 9th inst. " GEORGE G. GARDNER, Chief of the Staff," The Richmond Examiner also publishes the Ll lowing official despatches concerning the Federal attack on Charleston:— " Charleston, July 10. "To General Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector- Gcnera-1: " At dark, on the 10th, the enemy obtained pos session of the southern portion of Morris Island. Four monitors engaged battery Wagner and the battery atCumming's Point all day without damage or casualties; but the losses in opposing the enemy were severe-300 were killed and wounded, includ ing 16 officers. The enemy's loss is evidently heavy. " G. T. BEAUREGARD." "To General Cooper.—July 10, 11'30 p.m. " The enemy has a threatening force on the lower front of James Island along the stores, an attempt was made to destroy the Savannah Railroad bridge, but was foiled, with the loss of one steamboat. " G. T. BEAUREGARD.'' " To General Cooper.—July 13. "There is nothing new since yesterday. The enemy is engaged in establishing long-range guns in the middle of Morris Island, being aided by five monitors. Three wooden gunboats are firing on bat teries Wagner and Gregg, on the north end of Morris Island. " G. T. BEAUREGARD." The gunboat Union arrived at Fortress Monroe on the 14th inst. from Charleston, reports all of Morris Island captured except Fort Wagner. The enemy's loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners is between 700 and 800. The attack commenced on the 10th. The Union left on the afternoon of the 13th, at which time the siege of Fort Wagner was progressing, with every prospect of a speedy cap ture. Five monitors were engaged. A special despatch, dated July 14, morning, from St. James's College, four miles from Williamsport, thus announces the retreat of General Lee's army across the Potomac. It says: "The enemy has crossed the river. This morn ing a scout came in and reported that the enemy had been crossing their troops all night. This statement was not fully credited, but General Sedg wick's corps, on the centre, was ordered to push forward. It advanced to the line of the enemy's works, and found them empty. At five a.m. Gen e Kilpatrick, anticipating his orders by two hours, moved out on the enemy's left, and found their strong position, which commanded the Williams port road, evacuated. There has not been a gun fired, The wily rebel chieftain has crept stealthily away from under our very noses while we were dig ging ditches for a line of defence. The rebels crossed on a bridge of flat boats, which they have built since they arrived at Williamsport. High water did not affect their proceedings. Their line of defence served them the excellerit purposes of concealing their movement until they could safely retreat. THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL LEE, NEAR BERRYVILLE, CLARKE COUNTY, VIR GINIA, June 22. Upon no previous occasion since the command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was assumed (rather more than a year ago) by General Lee has any one of his campaigns opened with fairer promise or more encouraging augury than the present. We have seen on a recent occasion the initiative taken by Gen. Hooker, and the ignominy which awaited his overgrown army and its imbecile commander in the tangled wildernees and matted thickets around Chancellorsville. We shall now be called upon critically to observe the conduct of an army acting in its turn on the offensive, and with infinitely inferior wealth of resource than was com manded by Gen. Hooker, but which has the advan tage of being under the guidance of one of the ablest existing masters of the art of war. It is only by slow and gradual degrees that the reciprocity of confidence now subsisting between Gen. Lee and his army has grown to its full and perfect stature. In one respect the unobtrusive humility and want of demonstrativeness which are so winning and engaging to those who have the happiness of enjoy ing the intimacy of Gen. Lee are disadvantages in connexion with his command of a volunteer army, in which emotion rather than discipline, heart rather than habit, is the guide of action. But it cannot have escaped close observers that the affection and admi ration of his followers for Gen. Lee culminated at that battle of Chancellorsville, and that much of the enthusiasm which had so long clustered aruund General Jackson did not sink with him into the tomb, but subsequently descended to the man whose guiding brain had so often launched the avalanche of " Stonewall" Jackson against their common foe, and who brought into the field an unselfishness as lofty and a purity as spotless as those of General Jackson himself. It needed not the enthusiastic cheers which greeted Gen. Lee as he rode at Chan cellorsville along the lines of his victorious troops on the afternoon of May 3 to proclaim to those who have watched them closely that they wear him in their heart of hearts. Similarly, though at dif ferent moments during the last 10 or 12 days the strategy has seemed inexplicable to empirical teed tians, such is the confidence universally reposed in Gen. Lee that not a doubt has been expressed, not a misgiving indulged. This confidence has been, as 11 write, repaid',by the solution of all misapprehen sions, and it is now patent, even to the moles at Washington, that Gen. Lee has transplanted his whole army from Fredericksburg to the Maryland line, and has turned the flank of Gen. Hooker with out any penetration of his design by the latter, or without any steps having been taken to molest or harass the long line of the Confederates. Right across the beautiful State of Virginia, starting from the Potomac ai; Harper's Ferry, and running in a south-westerly direction to the southern limit of the State, stretches the blue ridge of moun tains, not dissimilar in height or appearance to Snowdon or Helvellyn, and intersected by infre quent roads or " gaps" (as they are here called), through which alone it is possible for armies to penetrate. It will be obvious that upon the posses sion of these gaps depended the mastery of the situa tion as Gen. Lee's army edged off from Fredericks burg towards Winchester. If be had moved off pre maturely from Culpepper Court-house and se i ze d these gaps, Gen, Ewell's mission against the force of General Milrov at Winchester would have been frustrated, as General Milroy would have heard that the whole army was moving, and would have slipped off to Harper's Ferry. If after General Ewell had struck his blow at Winchester General Lee had been slow about seizing the gaps he might have exposed himself and General Ewell to great danger, it General Hooker had acted promptly, had seized the gaps and interposed between Lee and NE SP fact that along the lines of entrem hoisted, and the opposing forces . ,t .are pet of their wt way. Admiral Porter, scenting ss wind, commenced a more furious bi the mortars. It was not until four in t. . t ern.. that General Grant sent word over to Porter to re-. quest him to cease firing, as the Confederates had ! sent out a flag of truce. On Friday morning, the 3d instant, General Grant (Federal), and General Pemberton (Confederate), held a con ference. The former is described as being rather silent and smoking, while Pemberton, equally cool and careless in manner, was plucking straws and biting them as if carrying on the merest chit-chat , . The Confederate General asked for terms less galling ;ban those of " unconditional" surrender. Grant refused any other permission than that of taing I heir clothing, side arms, one horse to each mounted officer, and 30 waggons of provisions. Same of the New York correspondents say that Pemberton en , dsavoured to blind his adversary to his true psi lion h wishiug to insert a proviso that he should be abowed to take out eignt days 6 provlsions, but f when th e Fedc.ral army.. entered the deception was und out, as there was no such store in hand. The New fork World approves ol! the terms granted on these grounds:--" General Grant was induced to grant these terms upon natural and justifiable mo tives. They w ere g i ven as acts of magnanimity to a brave foe, not extorted as necessities to hasten the capitulation. It is asserted by the rebel officers that anything less than this would not have been accepted by them, and the consequences would have been a desperate conflict to escape through our lines. The present adjustment has this advantage, that it rids us of a large and encumbering load of prisoners whom we should have to feed, clothe, and tend, and to transport them 3,000 miles at enormous expense. Besides, it is very properly estimated that these men, returning to their homes and to their camps, will work more demoralisation to the rebel cause than a confinement in Northern prisons. It has been mooted among us that many of these men will be found fighting against us in a few days in violation of their paroles. This may be to sonic extent. Yet we firmly believe that hat be h h a a l l f f of of the the number will never carry musket Confed3fAcY m ke he the it oath of ourth alle ore if ey can 1p . A f ot the whole' glance if number th w ould ta permi t led.: To accept the Northern ac count of the whichcause led to the fall of this stronghold, it may be won after the battle Grant Vicksburg was virL'uallY stated that according to G en. of Champion Hills. But the lod stock of e is no doubt that h ad the Confederates possessed a g, provi sions, Gen, Grant weuld have hat: his task mate rially lengthened, and in that case it ;,s impossible to conjecture the result. At the moment of t heir surrender the garrison were in great straits. Already they were reduced to the offal and drek;s of their commissaries. Mule meat, while not eaten e. 9 a necessity, had become preferable to their pickled beef, Pork was all gone, flour used up. Corn, ur„.— ground for the most part, was left in limited supply. But the worst difficulty was that of ammunition. Only ten percussion caps to the man were found in their pouches. Originally short, they had received. forty-two thousand through the lines since the in• vestment. Of cartridges they had very few. Their medicines were scanty. Nearly six thousand men in hospital and continually exposed to the dangers of plunging shells ; delicate women and tender children crying for bread and wailing for the loss of friends around them. It must have been a strong heart that could have held out longer. One cause for determining the time was un doubtedly the apprehension that on the 4th General Grant would attack. The re sult would be the sack and pillage of the city, and great slaughter. The capitulation avoided all with out loss of honour. The Federals took possession on the morning of their great anniversary, " The Fourth." General I%lTherson was sent into the lines to receive the surrender. He met General Pemberton at an old stone house about half a mile from the lines, and had conversed some minutes when General Grant rode upon the ground. After a brief consultation they rode into the town. Major• General Logan had already received orders to march into the town and establish a provost guard. Lieut.-Colonel Strong and Colonel Coalbegh, elate, to General A: Pherson, rode on in advance with the national flag, which was hoisted over the court house, and its folds flung to the breeze at half past eleven o'clock. General Ellet, with the marine brigade, was the first to land, and Admiral Porter next. The garrison of Vicksburg numbered about 30,000, besides whom there were only 4,000 citi zens and negroes. The visitors did not capture any very valuablestores. Ofpublic property thereis little of any value beyond the cannon and ammunition ; 30 siege guns, 102 field-pieces, and 50,000 stand of arms and equipments are among the captures, and 80 stand of colours, most of which have been seized and torn to shreds as trophies by the excited troops. Of amil unition there is about 100 rounds for each heavy gun and about 12 for light field-pieces. Of cartridges there is a limited quantity. Some of the guns are very superior ; one an English gun, 61 inch diameter, rifled; another 3.07, a Brooks' gun of great range, besides the old-fashioned 10-inch columbiad. Two of their heavy guns have burst ' during this siege and many of their field-pieces are disabled by Federal shot. A considerable quan tity of molasses, sugar, and tobacco was discovered but of all other stores the quantity was quite limited. When the tremendous nature of the bom bardment is considered, Vicksburg does not present such a ruined appearance as might have been ex pected. The fortifications, which are very extensive, and constructed with great ingenuity, are much cut up. The horrors attendant upon the constant storm of shot and shell which was poured into the place consider were such as have hardl y been known sincethe days of the Pen insular war. When we that the inhabita nts —men, women, and children— have, for a month and a half, been i n d a i ly terror of their lives , never being able t o sleep a night at their homes, but crawling into caves, unable to move except in the few peaceful intervals in the heat appreciate what a life of horror e m These caves, indeed ' are among h ss7 ay features of this life in a besieged te o o f s t was the curious u day, tr hme u r i city. Into these subterranean pits the inhabitants would crawl so often as the guns andmortars opened out what promised to be a heavy fire. From a diary kept by one of the unfortunate citizens we learn the feeling of the inhabitants towards the close of the siege. He says that the 3d of July was exceedingly hot. Early in the morning there was a little firing on the land side. About eight o'clock it ceased, and the report spread through the town of a flag of truce being sent out. Sone construed it to mean a surrender of the city; others that the Federals were demanding the surrender. Some supposed that the women and children, of which we had great num bers, were to be sent out, as there was considerable expectation of a bloody battle on the next day. The navy mortars kept up an increased fire upon the town, but in the rear all was quiet. Rumours kept flying about the town to various ends. At four o'clock the mortars ceased, and for what proved to be a lasting spell. We were once permitted to breathe without fear. Some degree of disquietude was felt by the citizens and army in regard to the flag of truce that had been passed on this day, and it leaked out that a surrender was in contempla tion. On the following morning it became known that the surrender had been made, and that the alleged cause was starvation. The people were divided on this matter, some insisting on an abundance of supplies, while others maintained that they were exhausted. The result, will prove that our provi sions are exhausted, our men weak in body, but un daunted in spirit. Whosoever may be c h ar geable for this calamity, it cannot be laid to the brave and suffering garrison. Among the casualties during the siege were three women, and three children, and four men. A number were severely injured, and numerous limbs were lost. Some most remark able and ludicrous escapes were made. One shell fell and exploded between two officers as they were riding together on the street, and lifted both horses and riders into the air, without hurting either man or beast. One woman had just risen from her chair when a shell came through the roof, took her seat, and shattered the house without injuring the the lady; and a hundred others of similar casce. ,----: 1 hot _ APE R lines of entrenc 4- 4 4 7-, . :,,•••., itp':,.., -ing forces :*l i , /OC._ 7 ::,.., I,('' ., " their w 101 ',` , s t..... 4 ,11,,, bor r• •• ri 0 t h, ‘i tereabn: I'a 30s ; the very tree. 495. 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