The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

HE RRM AN'N, PRESTIDIGITATEUR.-
PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—HERR HERRMANN'S
Performances, EVERY EVENING, at Eight. In Two
Farts—as given by him in all the principal Theatres and
Opera Houses of the Continent of Europe and America. The
whole of the Marvellous Illusions entirely new, and invented
by Herr Herrmann. Prices of admission as usual. Doors
open at half-past 7.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE.
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING. THE DEAL BOATMAN : Messrs. G.
Beimore. F. Charles; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund
Falconer.
To conclude with the new and original Comedy, by Ed_
Ed-
mund Fal oner, entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART :
mance of the Nursery : Messrs:Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder,
Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville ; 31155 Charlotte
Uunders. Miss Murray, Miss R. Leolercq, Mrs. Melville, and
Mrs. Edmund Falconer.
Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usuaL
Commence at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.—
Oven for the Season.—Notice.—During the recess the
undermentioned alterations have been made to ensure the
natort ot the audienca distinct row of Stalls has been
erecocted, with two new stall Staircases one on each side of
tte Theatre. In the Dress Circle, all the' partitions and ori-
ginal seats have been removed, and chairs o a convenient
size, covered with Utrecht ve.vet, introduced. The approaches
to the Dress Circle will be carpeted and generally improved,
while the seats in the Amphitheatre will be made as commo-
dious as those of the Pit. In addition the whole of the inte-
rior of the Theatre has undergone a thorough restoration.
liar. and llrs. Alfred Wigan every evening.
THIS EVENING. and during the Week, to commence at
7, with AN UNLUCKY MORTAL : Mr. William Farren,
miss M. Harris, &c.
After which, at a quarter to 8, the new Comedy of
FINESSE; or, Spy and Counter Spy: characters by Mr.
Alfred Wigan, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Howe, Mr. Buckstone ;
Mrs. Dowton (2d appearance). Miss L. Angel, and Mrs.
Alfred Wigan.

Concluding with TURNING THE TABLES.
0. n Monday, Oct. 26. Mr. and Mrs. GRAS. MATHEWS
ill return to the London stage.

i STEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-
sole Proprietor and Manaqer, M. R. Webster.
This 'I heatre will RE-OPEN for the Winter Season on
THURSDAY next. Oct I. entirely new painted and decorated.
First appearance of Miss BATE..IIAN, the celebrated Ameri-
can artiste.
At 7, TIIE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. Stirling.
A t 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, suorted
by Mr. Arthur Stirling (his first appearance here), Messrs.
R. I'hillips, Billinf,rton, Stuart, A. Wood, Eberne, Miss H.
Simms and Mrs. Billingten.
To conclude with CATCHING AN lIEIRESS : Miss
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE,
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.

THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel-
ford, Miss Simpson.
Followed by (6?d time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL
THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White.
To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss
Thorne.

Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 7m.—Afternoon, 3h. 27m.
To-tioaßow.-Morning, 3h. 45m.—Afternoon. 4h• 4m.

The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 29, 1863.

TITERIiO3SETEIt.
This day at Two o'clock 6B
Barometer-29.98.
Wind—South-West ; light, and fine.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1863.

If we were to give implicit credence to the state-
ments put forward by MANHATTAN and other pro-
Federal reporters, we should certainly be led to
regard this desperate Civil and all but Servile war in
America as even now virtually brought to a conclu•
sion ! 'We should be deluded into a belief that
already the Union is reconstituted, the Confede-
rate Government swept out of existence, General
LEE reduced to a nonentity, President DAVIS ren-
dered utterly insignificant. That we are not, in
saying this, in any way guilty of exaggeration in
regard to the tone adopted by the Northern writers
can be rendered apparent upon the instant by a
single paragraph extracted from MANHATTAN'S
last vulgarly vigorous communication. A letter in
which that Yankee JUNIUS appears, more conspicu-
ously than ever, as the organ of what we may per-
haps most aptly term the blatant bumptiousness of
the North. Roaring at first quite as mildly as BULLY
BOTTOM himself—" I hope," coos this " sucking
dove" from the other side of the Atlantic,
" that no more blood will be shed in our
own unhappy civil war. I judge it is near its end,
for all the Southern papers have turned blowers,'
and brag of what is to be done, in such a manner,
that I am confident they are on the eve of a general
surrender. You will see that my words will come
true. After all, what have the rebels to fight for ?
—a part of South Carolina, up in the mountains—
Georgia—Alabama--a part of Virginia—North
Carolina is on the fence—Arkansas is shaky, her
capital captured, and the Mississippi open ! Look
on Tanner's map of the old United States, and you
will see how little is left in rebellion. Their cause
is hopeless, so far as separation is concerted. The
rebels could govern the Union, if they had gumption
sufficient to go for the Union and fight in the Union.
Every day they are in rebellion they strengthen the
power of Mr. LINCOLN and his Government." After
that, really the best thing, if not indeed, the only
thing left, for the Confederates to do, must
be—obviously—to send a flag of truce in hot baste
to General MEADE, meekly offering the submission
of the South in the humblest terms, and upon the
very mildest conditions, that can yet be wheedled
from the Federal Victors I

Before quite coming to this same conclusion,
however, it may, perhaps, be just as well to
lettuce down the latest particulars just brought
to no, per the City of New York, from the actual
seat of war. News of battle it will be found
to furnith
comprising within a very moderate space
the following
extraordinarily long catalogue of the
most recent
advantages gained by—the Confede-
rates ! To epitomise them just as they stand in
this bewildering string of Telegrams—we learn (per
the City of New York) that. when the last mails
left, the Confederates, under LEE, though not in
large force, held a stenng position on the line to-
wards
which M
EADE was advancing upon them
—namely,
upon the lint
in the skirmishes which
the Rapidan ! That
—4l had already taken
place between the two malt. armies, 150 Federal
Cavalry had just been ea +
Palled by the Confede-
rates ! That the Federal General THOMAS was
reported to have met with a reverse at Lafayette,
Tennessee ! That BUCKNER had
captured 300
Federal prisoners ! That ROSECRANz had been
driven back by the Confederates 13RA,0,a
and
JOHNSTONE! That General NEGLEVS
divi-
sion of 5,000 Federals, attacked at Bird's Gap 11
16,000 Confederates, had, not unnaturally, been
forced for a while, at least, to withdraw to a dis.
tauce, it Was said, of three miles and a-half, by that
formidable proportion of three to one! That Gene-
ral LONGSTREET was reported to have advanced
through ltmea at the head of 20,000 Confederates,
and to have already pressed forward as far even as
Lafayette ! That horn all a quarters the Southern
troops were rapidly hurrying together at Atlanta!
That Fort Moultrie, although still being shelled,
had been strengthened by its Confederate defenders !
That a reconnoitring party of Federals bad been
captured on the Savannah Railroad! That in front
of the Federal lines in North Carolina there was
visible an increase of the forces of the Confederates !
That in Western Virginia Southern troops to the
numbsr of 8,000 were preparing for a new
raid into the Federal territories ! Yet, with
a swarm of telegrams like those dropping in upon
us, we are assured by Northern writers like " Man-
hattan" that the cause of the South is altogether
desperate, that the Confederates are virtually at this