The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

r3EATEE-ROYAL HAY MARKET, Whitworth shot when she left the engagement. Lessee, Mr. J B. Ruckstone. The Passiac was stru c k 58 ti mes an d disabled, the THIS EVENING, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. Mr. and Mrs. A'fred Wigan, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen- Weehawken 59 times, after which her turret dale, and Miss Louisa Ange'. After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a work e d with difficulty ; it is certainly a testimony Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East. 'Co conclude with SORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela to the strength of the veseels that they should Miss Maria Harris. Commence at 7. have received such a fire. It is rumoured that the Confederates had very effective Whitworth guns. Effective their guns certainly were, of whatever description they might be, and if they are of the same calibre, worked with the same desperate spirit at Vicksburg, the five Federal ironclads who have attempted running the blockade may tell the same story. Little consolation for the defeat in South Caro lina comes to New York from Mississippi or Louisiana. Admiral FARRAGUT is described as being caught b e t ween two batteries, neither of which he c an pass; while the entire Yazoo expedi tion has been forced to abandon the projected attack spon Fort Pemberton. It is rumoured at New 01.- 1 leans that the Federals intend making a forward movement by way of the Red River, and commenc ing operations on the Atchafaraya, one of tho many small streams in the neighbourhood, which runs from the Red River out into Atchafalaya Bay by Pta Fierro. Meanwhile General Foster re. mains besieged at Washington, North Carolina, all efforts made to relieve him having proved unsucces ful. The Confederates, apparently encouraged by the failure of the attempted succours, have mustered 27,000 between Washington and Newbern, with a view, it is said, to attacking the latter place, a town of some size, on the River Nose. It is not wonderful under such an aspect of affairs, that New York is clamouring for a change in the Administration, and getting up public meetings to inveigh against England. We shell probably hear the failure of the attack on Charleston laid at our doors, on the strength of the Whitworth guns. Like the old fable of the wolf and the lamb, America will never want an occasion for quarrel with England, though the relative position of the disputants might possi bly be reversed at the end of the story. One thing is certain. By their own showing the Federals have suffered an unquestionable and decisive defeat from the Confederates, after they had exhausted every effort to support their attempt. Suppose they reserve their lofty indignation against " Southern traitors, Northern eiders, and piratical allies," until they are a little more able to carry out their threats. One thing at a time is as much as most States or individuals can manage satisfactorily, and when the North has finery accomplished the subjugation of a few rebellious provinces, it will have more leisure to humble that Power against which nearly every nation of the civilised world has tried its hand in vain. In waiting for that day the demand of Lord LYONS for the return of the unopened mail-bag of the Peterhoff will perhaps come as a wholesome counter irritant to the abandonment of the long planned expedition against Charleston. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Mss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New itomantic Drama, in Three Acts, and PrSlogne, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by P aul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brong,am, H. IA iddi:ombe, P. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Those who predicted, at the beginning of the Polish insurrection, that it would be speedily quelled, have preyed themselves false prophets. They did not calculate on the strength that was in herent in a struggle which concerned the liberties of a people, and despised as that people was there was sufficient vitality in its constitution to prolong the struggle for a considerable period. The last news received from Poland contains intel ligence of the defeat of the Hussars of the Guard, who were pursuing the insurgents, and have been beaten by them with the loss of 300 killed and wounded. The determined resistance of the Poles is proved by the fact that four engagements were fought between the insurgents and the Russian troops in one day. It would have been a great saving to the Russians if they had at the outset re cognised the claims of Poland to consideration, and trusted more to the suaviter in modo than to the fo'titer in = re. As it is they have parried the question and shifted their ground continu• ally, till they seem at present unable either to enforce their supremacy or to adopt conciliatory measures. It is also reported that MOSAKOUSKI'S band has defeated a Russian division near Olkusz. On the whole, affairs seem promising for the cause of the insurgents, and while we may feel assured that this gallant band must inevitably succumb in the long run before their oppressors, still their long enduring struggle proves that the cense of the pa triots is possessed of an innate strength which was undreamt of by their enemies, and also that the mighty legions of the CZAR do not find it so easy to put down the serried ranks of those who are striv. ing for a cause that is dearer than life. M. BILLAULT, in the recent debate on the budget of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, said that great reserve was necessary in speaking of that question. He added that "Government would give no explana tico that would injure the success of negotiatiors." There was some truth in his after remark, that the sympathy of all Europe must concur in settling the Polish question ; and the general feeling that has been evinced by France throughout the course of this unhappy struggle, bears out her Minister in stating that they are all animated by a cordial feel. ing for the sufferings of Poland. It is unsatisfac tory for us to reflect that had our Government taken up the cause, or entered into the wrongs of Poland to the same extent, anti with the same warmth that the French did, the condition of that outraged land might by this time have been ame liorated, and her people might have a better pro spect of future peace. If the policy of England is to be regulated, according to Lord RUSSELL'S notion of being subservient to the strong, and bullying to the weak, we shall lose for our country the proud distinction that she once possessed of being the champion of the oppressed, and the terror of the tyrant. The proclamation of the Provisional Go vernment is interesting to peruse. It asserts with some truth that a" dictatorship does not answer the circumstances of the time." Therefore the Central Committee has resumed the direction of national affairs. This is a wise step, :nasmnch as the election of a Dictatorship is apt to engender angry feelings, and at all events to awaken jealousy in an under. taking where so much depends on unanimity and a good understanding prevailing. The conduct of the Wielopolskt family is perfectly ab surd. The father is now attempting to defend the son from the consequences that have ensued from his inju dicious efforts to screen his own evil actions. Hence the Marquis has requested the Prussian Government to impeach the editor of a Posen paper for an attempt made upon his son in reference to the challenge. The request has been complied with, and this double game so far succeeds, but if there is any truth in the statement that both father and son have been advised to resign, it will be a benefit to both sides when that event takes place. The Grand Duke also has been requested to leave, it is hinted, and as any change will be for the better in the con duct of affairs at Warsaw, it is to be hoped that such ma y be the case. Tho length of time that the Polish struggle has continued, and the spirit with which it has been maintained, must in the end have some weight on their persecutors, and induce them not again to rouse the passions of those whom they cannot subdue in such a hurry as they fancied was once in their power. Also the united testimony of three great European Powers have borne witness to the CZAR that his proceedings are not favourably looked upon by those whom he calls his allies and might not wish to find his enemies, therefore, taking all things into consideration the prospects of Poland are not so unpromising as at one time they appeared to be, and courage and constancy may yet gain some advantages, dreary as was the struggle in which they have been engaged. FINE ARTS. THE OLD WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY, On Saturday we had the more than usual grati fication of attending the private view (at the Society's Gallery, 5, Pall-mall East) of this really beautiful and exceptional Exhibition. A mere passing announcement of the fact of the Private View having taken place in the forenoon, was all we had opportunity for in cur impression of Satur day_ The gallery having been thrown open this morning to the public at large for the rest of this present season,the justice of our estimate of the gene ral merits of the collection may be tested with the utmost facility by anyone who cares to note the ad vance made in this exquisite art of painting in water colours, and this simply by means of one saunter round the Society's Gallery —not on any ac:.ount for getting, before the morning's stroll round the apart ment is finished a glance at each of the four won derful little screens. As a whole the collection for the present season is rather smaller, as it appears to us (numeri cally) than ordinary. The pictures now on view barely exceeding three hundred (304), as enumerated in the catalogue. But it would hardly be rash to remark at once, that of these the majority, more or less earnestly win from us a share of our admiration. The onward advances that have been made, in the general development of the art of water-colour painting, have not for loug been more signally evidenced by any collection, regarded " as a whole,' than they have been certainly just now come to be evidenced by the Oid Society of Water-colourists, the Society founded within the first lustre of this present century. Looking at some—nay we will say at many—of the works now hanging upon the walls or the screens of the good old gallery, and then recalling to mind what the art was, what it achieved, what were its chef d'ceuvres in the days or at the hands of Girtin or of Sandby, of Varley or of De Wint, one can all the better appreciate " the goods the gods have given us" in these later days, and under the far more potent and magical manipulation of artists such as Burton, and Hunt, and Fripp, and Gilbert, men of mark like Carl Haag, and Frederick Tayler, and Birket Foster, and Joseph Jenkins, and Cox, and Evans, and Riviere, with a contemporary throng still of other variously gifted brother Mem bers and Associates. Altogether—in this Society, and contributing works, many of them numerous, and some of them really remarkable works, to the present exhibition—there are fifty-one of these " Old So ciety" water colourists, twenty-eight of them mem bers, twenty-three of them associates. Among the most industrious exhibitors in the collection now on view at 5, Pali-mall East, being Collingwood Smith, and —we grieve to interpolate here in paren thusis (the late)—F. 0. Finch, each of these members having contributed no less than seventeen pictures to the present exhibition. Breaking away from a temptation to indulge in any further generalities, however, we would now particularize some at least among the more notice able works of art which more particularly arrested our attention on Saturday, and several of which lend an especial charm to this year's collection at the Gallery. As limpid and sparkling an English river scene as George A. Fripp has for some time past produced, "Bisham Abbey, on the Thames, near Marlow" (9), would have compelled our footsteps to loiter long, almost immediately upon crossing the familiar threshold on Saturday, but that a casual glance further along "the line" showed us, what it is impossible not to recognise upon the instant, as John Gilbert's masterpiece—(lB) " Don Quixote's Curious Dis eourse upon Arms and Letters." The incident as translated from the stately Hidalgo Spanish of Cervantes into the drily humorous English of Tobias Smollett runs briefly thus :—" Don Quixote went on with his discourse in such a manner, and in such proper expressions, that none of those who heard him at tl ai tinee,could take him for a mad - man. On, the contrary, most of his hearers being gentlemen, to whohe the use of arms properly belongs they listened to him with pleasure:"—Book iv e n. 10. We have never before seen Mr. Gilbert to such advantage as he appears befoie us 'in this picture. Not a touch anywhere perceptible here of those three demerits (sins almost), by one, or othq, of which, sometimes flagrantly by a combination of them all, he has so often ere this marred - the products 'of his really fine genius—haste, or carlessness; or, worst fault of all (because, as this picture proves to abso lute demonstration, so easily to be avoided by him wizen he lists), an intolerable coarseness. Even the refined and fastidious taste of the late Charles Leslie, R.A., might have been gratified by a glance over this eminently Quixotic rendering of an inci dent full of humour, and of a humour too that is none the less piquant in its way because in many of the forms and faces of the listening guests (knights and ladies andservitors they are al in tensely listening iu their looks!) there is not only so much of the quaint and odd, but so much also of the courtly and the gracious. As clever a Bran white as there is now in the gallery (and there are half a dozen there this season) is (46) " Sunset—e Black Frost," with its level ringing surface of ice granite. There is a little oblong Newton hard by, there, at that corner of the gallery—it hangs close to the floor, so that one is almost brought to one's knees to leok at it—the atitucle, however, hardly inappropriate, if regarded as a tribute to its beauty —a little oblong view of the " Madonna del Salute, at Venice" (51) as much of a poet-artist's dream of the Sea City as the famous chapter in Dickens's "Pictures from Italy" was a poet-artist's dream of it in pen and ink. A fine windy view near Holyhead is (53) H. Gastineau's " Ascent from the South Stock Lighthouse," with the rocky crags" clanged about" by gulls and mews, Rosenberg's (75)lucious grapes and dark ripe peaches, touched into more delicious beauty of colour by the contrasting bloom of the scarlet geranium, would seem still as delightful to the mind's eye in retro spect, bat that we think since of some far more wondrous fruit and flowers, some lilacs that Bur ton wots of, and some little acid apples known to W. Hunt, hanging there upon the screen close by ! Further on—at the opposite side of the gallery— there are two other Newtons worthy of notice; one (98) a moonlight view of the said " Ma donna del Salute" at Venice ; the other (99) representing a gateway at Rome, with, as a motto from Byron, in the Catalogue, "Rome and her Ruin past redemption's skill"—a motto pointed somewhat ironically in its political signifi cance, as it seems to us, by the artist's introduction upon the scene of a troop of soldiers of the French Army of Occupation ! One is almost fain to cross the stile and take a tranquil stroll along the meadow path across the "Church fields at Reigate" (111), depicted by C. Davidson. Few grave faces but will break into a smile before H. P. Riviere's " The pence beforeßeady Reck oner. " Pat, with his emptied bag of ha' him, with his goodwife breath lessly watching his side, his bit of chalk ciaulcuhlaistionhsaud,byaeorihoigs up the sum on the back of the old pair of bellows. Alfred Fripp's absurdly -named " Watching the Porpoises" (125)—it might be anything else in the wid e world or on h deep—is a bright-eyed cluste r o f b onn i e Watching t broadch i n g little fisherboys, charming to the heart to look at. A noble specimen of Frederick Tayler is (140) "Hawking—the Heron brought down on the Skirts of theVillage"—a bygone sport living there again— in man and woman, horse and hound, all of a past age. Not the least, surely, as exemplars of nearly an extinct s p ec i es o f t h e l atter, t h ose d ogs w i t h th e c its t h r o a u l ltdoubceh canary c o l oure d ha i r i n streaks and blotches. B i r k et Foster' s picture of " The Fer r y" (145), with the en s o s f i, mdaiuovethine f th e e rr f y o_re b g o r a o t u b n y d, t o b r e ra re th ed er y , margin, wo u ld almost win from us our acceptance as his happiest contr ib ution for this year, but that we remember that l ove l y English roadside "Cottage at Chiddiugford" (284), a cottage s cone that Birket Ely, the Dean of Westminster, the Dean of S Pauls and Mrs. Milman, Lady Rolle, F. North Downing, Sir E:Landseer, &e. AN OWER TRUE STORY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. joke him about it 2 A sum was raised for others by means of this benefit, but unfortunately all the poor widow had was mortification and d i sappointment—the assets barely covering the expenditure ! A few friends got up a memo• - rial to Lord Palmerston, and again there was hope. That memorial set forth the public services the husband had ren dered as an eminent draughtsman and an engraver—that to his exertions and abilities may be attributed much of the present importance of the art—not only in its com mercial aspect, but as greatly advancing. and 4timul iting the intellectual progress of the age, by giving a new and assisted s more instructive power to literature, an d a w id er and more usef al influence to art. It furthe r notif i ed that the follow kg w or k , established, or materi a lly by him were : _iju n originated , established, M agaz i ne, L a d y s Magazine, Expositor, and a very I,rg e num b er of works either for children. It also set forth that, notwithstanding --'s industry and irreproachable character, he was unable to effect and at his death, on tanyhe lsaving O o c u t o t b o e f r, , a m :i ' clow and family with • out any provision whatever. The memorial was signed by upwards of 60 gentlemen well known in the literary and artistic world, as well as by several members of Parliament, I p B r 6 c o c , a he i e o ul left his os What was the result ? A letter signed C. G. Barrington. I hare take the liberty of transcribing it : " Downing-street, 27th March, 1863. "Sir,—Lord Palmerston desires me to say, in reply to your letter of the 24th, that he is sorry that he has no means of assisting M r s. --, as there is at present no balance available on account of the Royal Bounty Fund.—l re main, Sir, your obedient servant—C. G. Barrington." It will be sufficient if I add to the foregoing that benevo lent persons desirous of knowing the address of the dis consolate widow may apply by letter to D. M. A., at the Spectator office, Wellington-street, Strand. P &31PHILIUS. CONSECRATION OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. On Saturday a newly erected Roman Catholic church in the Wyndham-road, Camberwell, was consecrated by the Right Rev. Dr. Grant, R man Catholic Bishop of Southwark. The sacred edifiea is dedicated to the Sacred Heart, and contains sittings for about 700 or 800 persons. The service was conducted with great pomp, the musical choir of St. George's Cathedral landing its assistance. The Right Rev. Dr. Morris, Bishop of Troy, preached. During the rehearsel of ROSSiDes " Count Ory" at the Grand Opera last week, M. Borchardt, who played Raimbaud, fell dead on the stage, being attacked with apoplexy. He was only 35 years of age. BERLIOZ'S last opera, "Beatrice and Benediet" (Much to do (sic) About Nothing) has met with great success at Wiesbaden, under his own direction. The Queen of Prussia, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Nassau, complimented the composer of " Romeo and Juliet" very highly. Berlioz went also to Lowenberg to direct a con cert at the invitation of the Prince of Hohenzollern, who made himself the programme from Berlioz's work, namely, " The King Lear" overture, fragments of " The Romeo and Juliet" symphony, "The Harold" overture (Lord Byron), and "The Roman Carnival" overture. Berlioz is a thorough Shakesperian, his first wife being Miss Smithson, the once celebrated English actress.—The Queen. THE LATE LADY OLIVIA SPARROW.—At the sal.) Of the effects of the late Lady Olivia Bernard Sparrow, at Brompton-park, Huntingdonshire. on Friday, two ivory inlaid chairs, taken by Warren Hastings from the palace of an Iniian Prince at the tima he was Governor- General of India, were offered for competition. Mr. Hast ings altogether sent six chairs to Ent,land. Two of them went into the possession of the Princess Charlotte, and, after her death and the acceptance of the throne of Belgium by her husband, they were sold to Lord William Bentinck, and prevented by his lordship to the late Lady Olivia Spar row. The other four are in the possession of the Marquis of Hertford and Baron Rothschild. The competition - for the coveted chairs was very animatod, and they were sold for £4lO to Mr. Medland, who, it was understood, was act ing on behalf of the relatives of the deceased lady. The Exhibition of Sculpture in .the Horticul tural Gardens will be opened to the public on the sth of May. Foster alone could have drawn. Having got once to this same mention of the Screens, where so much of the merit of the Old Society's annual Exhibition again as usual hangs "on view,' we shall pause now only before one other p.c true upon the walls of the gallery. And a very noble picture it is too—before turning finally to a survey here of some among the marvellous works of art suspended on those same four screens. " Pal myra" is the subject selected this year by Carl Haag for the display of his powers as a painter of Oriental landscapes. And never to our recollection has that wonderful desert scene been depicted before now in a manner affording the spec tator so vivid a notion of the magnificence of that vast architectural display, even is ruin. Turning now to the radiant screens lighting up the gallery with their array of varied master pieces in water-colour painting —we find there con spicuously visible among the Exhibitors, two mem bers of the for Od our Society, who especially vie with each other admiration. And in such dif ferent ways ! Each with such a mastery of his art, and with such a subtle sense of the true and the beau tiful. F. W. Burton now witching the gaze with his superbly handsome " lostephane,"—(273)—a mere head (looking of life size), a touch of white raiment about the neck, the lovely eyelids downcast, the brown hair sparsely ringed round with a wreath of purple violets ! Now with his luxuriant heap of " German Lilacs" (234), piled on the stool before the kneeling flower-seller in the old Teuton market place ! Now—" best beautiful" of all Mr. Burton's three pictures in the Gallery—a painting without a name, simply en titled in the catalogue (239) — One of a Series of Drawings presented to Edwin W. Field, Esq., by the members of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. This enviable possession of Mr. Field's representing a sweet-featured, youthful girlish beauty reposing in an attitude expressive of all the languor of an invalid upon an apple-green pillow, her golden yellow hair flowing in loose abundance over it—she herself gazing with an air of abstraction upon one faint, trail, delicate sprig of pink blossom in her hand, type perhaps of herself ! As forW. Hunt's fru and flowers and bird's•nests--we are beggared in ian guage wherewith to describe the beauty and wonder of them in any way adequately. They are like the very things themselves. The down upon the bird's- nest we could almost fancy stirring with our breath ing, as we look at it ! The apples, with the little flecks and spots upon their ripened rind, we could (it nearly seems to us) eat ! The primroses tempt us to pull them, not by the sweet delicate stalks, bat roots and mould and all—to carry away home with us for the transplanting ! They are nothing less, as all the town knows by this time, than very marvels of imitative art. Many other pictures eminently deserving of notice, we are constrained to leave here unnoticed iire should be ungrateful, however, were we to leave the gallery without one word of cowmen dation having been first pronounced upon that singularly beautiful atmospheric Effect which every one will examine with delight in " Clearing Up " (157), by Joseph J. Jenkins, the society's gifted Secretary. Among those present were the Duchess of Suther- land, the Marquis and Marchioness of' Normanby, Earl Grey, Lord and Lady John Manners, Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Miss Mitford, Lady Char- lotte Denison, Viscount and Viscountess ehelsea, :he Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., Lord St. Leonards, Sir Robert snd Lady Phillimore, the Bishops of Oxford, Winchester, Rochester, and Esq., M.P., Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P., John Chapman, Esq., M.P., Charles Du Cane, Esq., M.P., Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., the Master of SlR,—Knowing the deep interest you take in everything relating to suffering humanity, and how ready you are in lending your columns to give publicity to cases of indigent merit—thereby causing benevolence to flow into its legibi mate channel—l crave the insertion in your valuable paper of the following melancholy statement : " On the 10th of April, 1863! I set out with my wife, house. hunting. We wandered up one street, down another. Until at last we observed a cottage, having on it a placard announcing the sale of household furniture, &,.3. The door was opened by --- the widow of an old frind, one of the first artists of the day. It VMS her furniture that was for sale, the landlord having distrained for rent. When her husband died, she succeeded in furnishing this house, and by letting lodgings had fought her way through with three, children. It had been .a hard struggle. A gen tleman who had been in India, and had there received a sun's 'stroke; which terminated in softening of the brain, was her principal lodger, the prop of her house—until his disease increasing in violence, h e h a d .to be placed in con finement as dangerous.: The ' S avage Cl u b , ' o f w hi c h --'s husband was a metuber, got up a benefit for her, as they had done for the widow of the late Robert. Brough. Poor --, by the way (the husband) was the most illustrious of the Forty Thieves.' How we used to Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Losses s, Mess's. Lindas and Vining. THIS EVENING the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Mi , s Amy Sedgwick, Sliss lienderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. CathcarVt Rox . , G. Melville, G. Beimore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and After which, KILLING TIME. Mr. Gee. Vining, Mr. C Seyton, and miss Amy Sedgwick. To conclude with a new nhimsical Extravaganza, entitled BEAUTIFUL HAIDEE ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee Rovers. Misses M. Oliver, Helen Howard, H u dspeth, Hen derson, and Murray ; Messrs. C. Seyton, G. Belmore, Fitz james, Moreland, and Ccckerill. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI, Sole Pronriator and ISanan-er,3lr. B. Webster. THIS EVENIGN. JANET PRIDE Messrs. B. Webster, T. L. Tool e , Paul- Bedford, S te phenson, Stuart, I 4 :burne, Sefton, C. J. Smith, R omer ; 3liss Avonia Jones, Miss A. Seaman, and Mrs. Stoker. -• ------- • To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. J. L Toole, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss A. Seaman. and Miss Stoker. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN," 1 Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde -park. -- The Weather—Sun Office, April 26, 1863. ---~-__. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night ••—. This day at N00n..... Wind—N. Westerly ; fresh, and fine weather APRIL 27. TIIERIIOXETER. Highest since Noon y es t er d a y .. GO Lowest durin g th e n i g ht .. 41 61 This day at Noon Wind—N -Westerly ; fresh. and fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tara DAY.—Morning, Bh. 18m.—Afternoon, Bh. 59m. To-moaßow.-Morning, 9h. 3 6 ui.—Afternoon, 10h. 12m. f ' , 17 .4. , tifjg er.....4'*•#:„. mUlt, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1863, Our anticipations of the result of the attack on Charleston have been fully realised. Northern accounts direct from the scene of action tell us that the repulse of the Federals was complete and deci sive. Nine of the vaunted iron clads, who are to sweep our commerce from the seas, crossed the bar on the 7th in single file, and moved up Charleston harboar towards Forts Sumter and Moul trie. In the course of this passage the fleet encountered a network of obstructions, stretching in every direction, which completely barred their progress. Finding it impossible to carry out the original intention and begin the attack upon the north-west face of Fort Sumter, the invading squadron were forced to content themselves with the nearest point they could reach, and accordingly commenced operations. Then began that struggle between forts and ironclads, whose probable result has so often interested and occupied men of science. Then began, too, that conflict between the North and South, which has been so long eagerly looked forward to as the trial of strength and spirit. Charleston is not in itself a possession of such vital importance as Vicksburg, but it was felt that, with the memories of New Orleans fresh in their minds, the Confederates would never dream of surrender, while the open threats of the North left little hope of mercy, even if the enemy cried quarter. The long delay of the attack was easily accounted for by tha Northern ingenuity, which is always ready to fur. nish "strategic reasons" for wholesale Bight, but reasonable men justly supposed that while the North were emulating the boastful school boy, who, with closed fists, and threatening attitude, goes round and round his adversary shouting, " I'll fight ye," wishing nothing so little as to fight, the South were employing their leisure in strengthening the forti fications surrounding Charleston by every means in their power, and were procuring every means of defence which modern science and ingenuity has placed at their disposal. We learn from the last accounts that the machine for clearing the torpedoes had, in consequence of the want of skill or want of luck that usually attends Northern tranceuvres, floated ashore and been cap tured by the Confederates. But, notwithstanding these various discouragements, it was determined to attempt the assault, and accordingly the nine ironclads, any one of which wculd have been a marvel to our forefathers, opened fire on the forts. On the equipment of this expedition, neither care nor expense had been spared. In the construction of the ironclads every improvement recently made in those sea dragons which have first tried their strength in the American struggle, had been introduced. The Keokuk, more especially, is said to have exhausted the resources of science and skill in her construction ; y e t, a l as for the pride of human workmanship, and the triumph of Northern skill, she rests beneath the very waters that was to have witnessed her success. The engagement, though only lasting two hours, was of the most desperate character. It was no feeble or purposeless fire that sunk such a vessel as the Keokuk, doubled up the turret of another iron clad, and after inflicting terrible injuries on the re maining vessels, compelled the whole fleet to retreat hopelessly defeated. So complete, so overwhelm ing was the triumph of the Confederates, that at a conference of the Federal C a m . menders held next day no voice was raised in favour of another attempt. It was " unanimously decided that it was useless to renew the attack." It was felt that to encounter again that tremendous fire, to come within reach of those crushing guns was to sacrifice the remainder of the vessels en trusted to their care. In striking contrast to the old feeling which induced the North to throw upon its Generals the blame of every loss, is the temper shown by the correspondent of the New York Times, who, after remarking that the fleet had only felt the outposts of the enemy, goes on to say it was solely due to the skill of the commanders that it was not entirely destroyed. Perhaps it is felt that it will not do to declare their naval commanders incompetent, as well as their military chiefs to be lacking in ability, or is it that the disaster is so bopelesa and conclusive that even Northern effron tery can find nothing to say ? It is a significant fact that while we learn from Northern sources the damage inflicted on the besieging force, no explicit account of the injuries received by the enemy finds a place in their reports. A correspondent of the New York Trzbune tells us that the north-east face of Fort Sumter is marked with eleven holes of great extent, some gaps being three feet wide. These scars, however, were dearly earned, for during the last 30 minutes of the engagement, the Confederate batteri es poured a concentric fire upon the enemy which is described as being more than mortal-made fleet could stand. Some idea may be gained of the nature of this fire by the account of the shots received. The Keokuk received uo, her turrets being completely riddled, and one of them still retaining a steel-pointed THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1863, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) THE ATTACK ON CHARLESTON. The New York Herald of the 14th contains a letter from its correspondent on board the iron-clad fleet, from which the following are extracts : " The attack would have commenced an hour or two earlier than it did, had it not been that the Admiral was advised to wait for the ebb tide, rather than sail up with the flood tide, as the former would be more apt to discover the locality of the obstruc tions in the channel, and the tide tarned at eleven o'clock. During these hours of suspense the eye had an opportunity of taking the features of the scene on which the great act was to be played. The blae waters danced in the bright sunshine, and flocks of sea birds dipped their white wings in the waves and uttered their shrill cries as they swooped down ward after their prey. Over the parapets of Forts Sum ter and Moultrie the rebel defenders were watching our movements and signalising them ; and even on the roofs and steeples of the distant city we could see hundreds of spectators. Distinctly in view were the numerous batteries, extending from the Wappoo Creek, on the Ashly river, following the contour of James Island, down to the Lighthouse battery, on the south point of Morris Island. On the other side they were more numerous still. Breach inlet battery, on the lower end of Sullivan's Island ; Fort Beauregard, and on up to Fort Moultrie; while in the centre of the picture, rising, as it were, from the water, stood Fort Sumter, dis playing the rebel flag on one angle, and the Pal metto flag on the opposite angle ; and beyond, Fort Ripley and Castle Pinckney, the city filling up the background. "Meanwhile the attacking vessels lay at anchor in the main ship channel, within a mile of the batteries on Morris Island, without provoking a hostile shot. The Weehawken was in the van and the other vessels in the order in which they are named in the plan of attack. Precisely at half-past 12 o'clock the fleet commenced to move. The distance to the positions at which they were directed to at tack was nearly four miles, and for almost all that distance they were within range of the enemy's batteries. But again there is a delay. Grappling irons attached to the Weehawken have got foul of her anchor cable, and it takes nearly an hour to set matters right. At list the difficulty is got over, and once more the vessels are under weigh. Slowly tney move up the ship channel. They pass within easy range of Fort Wagnor on Morris Island, but not a shot disputes their progress; they pass the battery at Cumming's Point, named, I believe, Bat tery Bee, but still not a discharge from a rebel gun. And it is not till the vessels have got fairly between the two upper points of Morris Island and Sullivan's Island—which are about a mile apart—and are rounding to make the entrance of the harbour, that the ominous stillness is broken. Fort Sumter opens the ball with her barbette guns; Fort Moultrie takes up the loud refrain. The various batteries join in the deafening chorus, and the ironclads find themselves within a circle of fire concentred from all the rebel guns that can be brought to bear upon the point. Nor is that all that these little floating turrets have to contend with. If it were, they might have held on their way defiantly, and run the gauntlet of all the batteries that stood between them and Charleston. The weak side of Fort Sumter is well known to be its north-west front. That was the point against which our guns were ordered to be directed, but that was also the point which the rebel engineers were determined that we should not get at. From the north-east angle of the fort across the channel to Fort Moultrie were suspended, floating from barrels, and kept taut by weights, heavy nets and con trivances of roping so fixed as to be sure to get entangled in the propelling apparatus of vesses, and also connected with torpedoes. Into this net the Weehawken which led the van fell, and for a long time her machinery was useless, and she drifted with the current. At last, after great exertions, she extricated her- self. The other vessels sheered off -And avoided the same peril. There was no getting into the required position in this way. Any attempt to persevere in that course would have rendered the fleet unman ageable, and exposed it to destruction. Baffled in the attempt to get round or past Fart Sumter in that way, the bulldog Monitors sought another opening, but even the shoal ground between the fort and Cumming's Point was barred up with Files. In fact, Fort Sumter was found to be the .apex of a triangle, the two sides of which were im penetrable to our vessels, and at the base line of which they were exposed to a concentric fire from Forts Sumter and Moultrie, the Redan, Battery Bee, and Fortßee.uregard. Thus brought to a stand, and nothing being left but either to batter down Furt Sumter or retire, the ironclads went resolutely to their work. Stretching themselves in a line between Sumter and Moultrie, and only giving an occasional shot to the latt3r work, they plied their guns upon the walls of Sumter. "The Keokuk steamed up to within some 300 yards of the fortress, while the other vessels lay at intermediate distances between that and 600 yards. The Ironsidea—the Admiral's flag-shin---- had become entirely unmanageable, refusing to answer her helm; so that, with the exception of one broadside which she poured into Fort Moul trie, she took no part in the attack, although she was herself the target for many of the enemy's largest guns, and was hit some 60 or 70 tim es, sustaining, however, no material damage. For half an hour, while our vessels were in the position I have described, the cannounding was of the most awfully grand and terrible character. No words of mine—no words of any man —can con vey a faint idea of it. It was sublimely terrific. No less than 300 guns of the largest calibre concen trated their fire upon the eight ae.aailants, who had but 16 guna with which to respond. The contest was too unequal to be persevered in. The Keokuk was soon badly damaged. The turret of the Passaic was so indented as to pre vent its revolving, The Patapseoe had her 2001 b. Parrot gun disabled, and besides night Was coming on. The admiral therefore signalised the fleet to retire, and suddenly they fell back from a contest in which they were so tremendously over matched, not, however, without leaving their mark behind. The north-east front of Fort Sumter, which was the only one exposed to our fire, was badly damaged. No less than 11 holes, some of them 31t. wide, and two embrasures knocked into one, showed the effect of the Monitors' guns. But that was all we effected. That and a dissipation of a popular error that Charleston could be captured by 9 or 10 ironclads. The signal to cease firing was given about 5 o'clock. It was obeyed, and the vessels fell back to the flagship, the parting shot being fired by the Nantucket as she passed Fort Wagner. And thus ended the most remarkable conflict that has ever taken place between war vessels and land for ifications—remarkable in this, that the guns of the forts outnumbered by 10 to 1 those of the vessels; and yet, after all, to what is cur failure to be attributed P To the impregnability of the land batteries or the weight and nn.mber of their guys ? Only to a slight degree. The real instruments of our defeat were the apparently insignificant and contemptible bar ricades of ropeworks and netting suspended across the channel, and which kept our vesels at a point which the rebel guns had previously been concen trated. Forts might have been passed and batteries silenced; but those twining enemies, which, like the serpents of Laocoon, coiled themselves around the motive machinery of our vessels and prevented the play of their iron arms, were not to be got rid of by force. In their grasp our vessels were in nocuous. And, therefore, the unfavourable result of the enterprize is not to be accepted as any test of the relative powers of iron•clands and land batteries. Without those obstructions, all the forts that defended Charleston from Lighthouse Point to Castle Pinckney, would have been insufficient to stop our Monitors from anchoring off the battery at Charleston. It has been calculated that some 3,500 rounds were fired by the rebels. In one minute there were one hundred and sixty counted. On our side there were but one hundred and fifty shots fired in all; so that the rebels fired over 20 shots to our 1. The Ironsides fired but one broadside, and that was at Fort Moultrie. That was her only offensive opera tion throughout the day. The Keokuk only fired 3 shots before she received her death wound. The result of the day's operations may be summed up thus :—The injury to the rebel fortifications is not such as will work any great loss to them, as we cannot renew the attack immediately. On our side we lost the Keokuk, which sunk this morning, and which is to be blown up to-day, to prevent her fall ing into the hands of the rebels. She was struck by 96 shots, Of these 19 were on the water line, 15 in the after turret, 12 in the forward turret, and 25 on the sides. The Cassiac is disabled by having her turret so injured that it cannot revolve, and she has to be sent to Port Royal for repairs. She was struck 58 times. The Catapsco was injured by t aving her 200 lb. Parrot gun disabled. She was struck from 40 to 50 times. The Nahaut was struck 80 times, and had her pilothouse completely shattered, The Ironsides was hit from 60 to 70 times, re ceiving no material damage beyond the knocking off of her port shutters, thus exposing her gun deck. The Weehawken was struck 59 times, and her funnel deeply indented, so that she worked with difficulty. The Montauk was hit 20 times. The Nantucket and Catskill were each hit about 60 times, having their decks considerably torn. The New York limes of the 14th publishes a lengthy account from its correspondent on board the fleet, agreeing in the main with the statements of the Herald reporter. The injuries received by the attacking squadron are stated as follows : " The Nahant received in all 30 wounds, several of them bad fractures of the deck and sides, below and above the water line. The most fatal blow, however, was given by a heavy rifled shot, which struck the pilot-house and dislodged several of the bolts, one of which, driven violently inwards, wounded all the three inmates of the pilot•house captain, pilot, and quartermaster. "The Passaic also received 25 or 30 wounds. The most extraordinary shot was from a large 10-inch rifled projectile, which struck the top of the the turret, scooping out a large portion of the iron, breaking all of the 11 plates of an inch thickness each, and spending its forca on the pilot-house (which is placed on top of the turret). in which it made a crater three inches deep, and producing such a shock on the pilot-house as to start its top and raise it three inches. Had not the force of the impact been broken on the turret, there can be little doubt that this shot would have gone clean through the pilot-house. Another shot hit the turret, forcing the place struck inwards, and pro ducing a big swell on the interior. The same shock disabled the carriage of the 11-inch gun, while por tions of the interior iron casing fell, and lodging in the groove of the turret stopped its revolution. " The Nantucket, besides receiving a number of wounds, had her turret so jarred that the cover of the port could not be opened, and consequently the 15-inch gun could not be used. These three are all of the Monitor type. "In addition, the other Monitors each received theta more or less, though not disabling them. 'hue the Catskill was hit 20 times. The worst wound was from a rifled shot, which broke the deck plating forward, going through i breaking a beam beneath, and spending its force on an iron stanc,ion, which it settled half an inch. " The Ironsides was frequently struck. One of shots broke off and carried away one of her port shutters, and her wooden bows were penetrated by shell, though they were prevented from doing the damage they otherwise must have done by the ex posed part of the vessel having been protected with sandbags. " But the poor Keokuk—she of all others, was the most fearfully maltreated. This vessel was struck 90 times, and she had 19 holes above an below the water-line, some of a size through which a boy might crawl. Her turret (51 inches of iron in thickness) were fairly riddled, and came out of the contest mere sieves, During the night her pumps were kept at work, to throw out the leaks she was making. The sea had become somewhat rough, however, and was washing in through the holes in her bows. By daylight it became obvious she must sink. Barely time enough was afforded to get off her wounded and crew, for she had by this time settled so much that the water waspouring into her turrets. Two or three of the men, indeed, and to jump into the sea, and were handed into the small boats which had come to her assistance. Suddenly she gave a lurch to one side, then a lurch to the other, and plunged under. She went down at eight o'clock at the spot of her original anchorage, nerr Lighthouse Inlet, and all that is visible of her is the upper portion of her smoke stock." SEMI-OFFICIAL WASHINGTON OPINIONS OF THE FIGHT. Upon this subject the Amy York Herald of th e .4th says : " WASHINGTON, APRIL 13, 11 p.m. " The Navy Department states that the de spatches received on Sunday from Admiral Dupont are not of so complete and definite a character as to make their publication expedient, and consequentl3 they will await the receipt of the full reports of the commanders of the different vessels engaged, Ali important detaila have already been published. The Navy Department does not regard the result of this preliminary bombardment as decisive of essentially discouraging. AFFAIRS IN TENNESSEE. The Richmond _Dispatch of tne 10Lh says General Rosecrans has sent five regiments of infantry to Kentucky, and has ordered all the cavalry from thui State to his army at Murfreesboro, and is moving ; his troops on our lea (our right), doubtless to prk - vent any movement upo i our post in that State. By way of Cumberland Gap we have to report that Colonel Clark's cavalry has possession of Moue Stirling, wher., he had captured 500 prisoners, and that Humphrey,Marsholl had joined.him at;tha point. - it is said that Burnside, at the solicitation of Guthrie, has been started with 30,000 Federal is. gantry and 10,000 cavalry for Lexington, Kec tucky. The Daville cars broughtjiinto Richmond 324 Union prisoners of war, captured by General F 0 rest at Brentwood, Tennessee. Among them we 23 commissioned officers. All of them are to exchanged at an early day. The Federals occupy Lebanon with a div isic under General Reynolds. CINCINNATI, APRIL 13 ' Major-General Burnside has issued an orderprt nouncing the death penalty on all persons foul) guilty of aiding the rebels. All persons sympathising with the rebels are t be arrested and tried, or sent beyond the linen• The order says that it must be distinctly uncler stood that treason, expressed or implied, w ill n ot B tolerated in this department. FORTRESS MONROE, APRIL Some skirmishing has been going on to-d°l Williamsburg, and it is rumoured that the rebel are between Williamsburg and Yorktown. It is also rumoured that the rebels are threaten' ing Suffolk, but nothing serious is anticipated il l either direction at present. MEXICO. The French advances were skirmishing at the very gates of P ue bl a, gradually concentrating various points around that city, until the 31st l ilt ' s when they occupied the eminence of Malinebe the north, Testimetmacau to the south, and the b of San Juan to the west, which last completellt commands Puebla on that side. On this hill, %ch ic is about three quarters of a mile from the auha rbs of Puebla, General Forey had established l l headquarters between the road to the capital, 8° that to Matamoras de Izucar. In Orizaba on the 26th ult., a general order / 1° issued imposing a heavy penalty on those grit should dare t o t a lk o f a ff a i rs at Puebla, and a Etin more heavy punishment upon those who SII attempt to write to France about them. The Mexican guer ill as attac k ed about 1.5 0° labourers, some of whom were armed, who W ere working on the railroad, and carried off all who vr et6 Me.ricans as prisoners. Considerable anxiety was felt at Vera Crux ja gard to the end of the Puebla affair, and it generally supposed that some time would elapse be' fore that city fell into the hands of the French. Meanwhile sickness and the Mexican guerilla° fir° annoying and les sen i ng t h e num b ers of the F r e°ch army. The summer season is upon them. The French st eamer G uerr i ere left for New - if 4 ° .1 . 0 yesterday, carryi ng A dm i ra l R eynaud, who , Whv there visited Ad m i ra l W il k es, who had ho i ste d ho flag on bo ar d th e V an d er b ilt. The usual salute vio fired by th e V an d er bil t an d returned by the Oler riere. The Vanderbilt still remains in port. The other day Admiral Wilkes breakfasted °II board her Britannic Majesty's steamer Aria o and several c i v ili t i es an d courtesies were exchan g between the two commanders. The brig B. Young arrived at Cardenas ye Bter' day, and brought 11 passengers of the steforl i Marion, whi c h vesse l was wrecked on Double gad Shot Keys on the 2d inst. A The Marion will p rove a t ota l wreck. A.ssiet' ante had been sent for to Nassau. The wedg e ° were already at wor k sav i ng part of the C arg; though in a dam age d con di t i on. The ste ame r Melita sails to-morrow at noon. 01(1 The British ste amer Q ueen l eaves at 1 2 o'c-° , noon, on Saturday. Major-General Hooker has issued an ordert i° which he reprimands in general terms officers ° lig send incorrect information from the picket The outposts of an army, he says, are its sategus rall ; and this duty must be so performed that the cal , are not unne cessar il y di stur b ed. Officers o f 0° posts are expe c t e d t o i n f orm themselves accur ately of all eve n t s t ransp i r i ng i n their vicinity, and t h°se whose fears magnify squa d s i nto large bodies o f the enemy as richly d eserve d eath as the base wr etci s who deserts his country ' s fl ag or his comra d e ° i , battle. It h as b een too much a practice upon °lito posts and b a ttl e -fi e ld s to send b ack reports s° a calls for reinforcements founded upon im tion or the t a l es o f a f r i g h tened or cow shirk. shirk. The f a t e o f b att l e may be chang ed by such reports. Offi cers will be bel l responsible that th e i r reports from the front are perfectly re li a bl e. Corps conataand3to will take effectu a l measures to prevent straggiiiiP g, ; which must n o t b e permitted. Regiments /3° moving promptly as ordered, permitting stragg l i or where the officers show a la c k o f ca pacity zeal in pushing forward and overcoming obstsc je a : must be spe c i a ll y reported for such neglect, i n ° dition to other measures that may be taken by 0°1: manders in suc h cases f or the enforcement of ell"' cipline. On opening the Paymaster's Department at the Brookly n N avy Y ard, on the 13th inst., it Wee discovered that all the money —about 140,000 dole. —which was brought over Irom New York on the 11th to pay the men, had been stolen from the tg ifea The matter was in the hands of the police. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 2 5.—The market has been 11 5 steady. Thr ees , f or the Account, slightly deciiij at first, b u t h ave since recovered, and are now., ot o f 69f. 45c., w i t h , however, but a limited amoun t business d o i ng , Mobiiier firm. Railway St)ore p u Market qu i et, and with little variation in prices to to the p resent t i me. The market closed as folloWgn v ; -it per Cent s .. 97 Italian Loan 7l Do. end month.... Do. end month 1 2 / SO 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 35 Do. end month,... - , - Credit Mobilier 1406 2 6 Russian / Do. end month 1405 Austrian - / 6 Bank Shares 3350 Spanish Threes.... 52 6° b 0 Credit k oncier -- Rome Debt The New York papers publish advices from l ets Cruz to the Ist April. Nothing of importance had occurred in the ne i g h ' bourhood of Puebla. RA IL WAYS. Cash. Aceo"ut. Orleans...,. ........... 1011 25 .. 1015 Northern . .... 1040 1040 ' ......... .. ...... New ditto Lyons and Meditarranean 1157 60 .. 1165 Gerieva 447 60 .. 450 : 0 Southern .. Western Eastern .... .. 63 2 6 0 Sardinian 453 75 .. 452 6 0 ...- Austrian Lon.hard North of Spain Saragossa 750 .. 750 Ditto to Barcelona BREAKING Ur OF THE ICE AT ST. PETEI I .--c n ll n Oa' —The Jour na l de St P e l ers b ourg o f t h e 17th A 'Z I PS publishes the foll ow i ng :—" Yesterday the ice oil th e 'i e v er suddenly began t o b reak up all along that part o f the to which t raverses St. Petersburg. It was not expe cted ro , take place for some d,.ys yet, and such a sight eve wee „fieo rented has, perhaps, seld om b een seen. T he blocks v t ioe cracked and burnt s , suddenly that there was not es en e tre to provid e f or t h e safety of the bridge of boats at the wity of th e Liteinaia. The bridge was swept sw e Y - 0 of its fast en i ngs and driven away horizontally, all st tee 2 Pt stoP the workm e n emp l oyed upon it proving unavailing 1 4 ° 4 , 10 . 50 its course by m eans o f cables. It was swept on "Lried the .Nicbolas-bridge, w h ere t h ree of the boa t s were were through ono o f t h e central arches, where tile/Ariveit smashed ag a i ns t th e stone piers, while others were ppill in all directions by th e masses of floating ice' 11 ,1 a. t0 b e no lives were l us t. Th e Nicholas-bridge was ordere; cleared by the authorities when the great body of ice was Dot approaching; despit e t h e terrible shock it rece i v ed, it W fit to damaged, and was shortly afterwards thrown open ega oreti traffic. The brid ge o f b oats near the exchange was re ivovial in good tim e , b ut a number of small boats were swept rsols down the river. It was only yesterday that mallYP e _ a t he w . bad crossed th e f roz. n Neva between Vaski.i - Os tro d to , Jhurch of St. Isaac. An immtnse multitude asseralec79o,, witness this grand an d a t th e same time alarming s P e .„, T i c ho' and crowds are still co ll ec ted in the vicinity o f tit les.bridge, where the Liteinaia-bridge was &Word'