The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-04 00:00:00

Shelled ont at Charleston,

On the 21st of August, at half-past lam., I was lying on
my bed in the Charleston Hotel, unable to sleep from the
excessive heat, and listening to the monotonous sound of
cannonade kept up on the enemy's position from the batte-
ries on James Island. Restless and weary of the night, I
had lighted a candle in defiance of mosquitos, and sought to
pass away the time with a volume of "Les Miserables,"
It happened to be the one containing the account of the
battle of Waterloo; and while deeply interested in the de•
seription of the rushing squadrons of cuirassiers, I was
startled by a noise that, from connection with my reading,
resembled the whirr of a phantom brigade of cavalry gallop-
ing in mid-air. My first feeling was that of utter astonish-
ment; but a crash, succeeded by a deafening explosion in
the very street in which my apartment was situate, brought
me with a bound into the centre of the room. Looking from
the window, I saw smoke and fire issuing from a house la
which were stored the drugs of the medical purveyor. A
watchman was running frantically down the street, and
when he reached the corner just below me, commenced
striking with his staff against the kerb ; a signal of alarm
practised among the Charleston police. At first I
thought a meteor had fallen ; but another awful rush
and whirr right over the hotel, and another explosion
beyond, settled any doubts I might have had—the city
was shelled. People are not generally given to laugh-
ieg under such circumstances, but I will defy any one
who witnessed what I witnessed on leaving my room, not
to have given way to mirth in moderation. The hotel was
crowded with speculators who had been attracted to the city
by the sole of some blockade cargoes, and the corridors were
filled with these terrified gentlemen rushing about in the
scantiest of costumes and the wildest alarm. One perspiring
individual of portly dimensions was trotting too and fr
with one boot on and other in his hand, and this was need}
all the dress he could boast ot. In his excitement and terror
he had forgotten the number of his room, from which he
had hastened at the first alarm, and his distress was ludi-
crous to behold. Another, in a sir-lei-state of nudity with a
portion of his garments on his arm, barked the shins of
every one in his way in his efforts to drag an enormoue
trunk to the staircase. On reaching the hail I found a
motley crowd, some of whom with the biggest words were
cursing the Federal commanders. Whirr I came another
shelf over the roof, and down on their faces went every man
of them into tobacco-juice and cigar ends and clattering
eriitsnnn_ I need not say that this is a class of
men from whom the Confederacy hopes .0,1,1.61 ee, dee
contrary, by their extortion, practised on a suffering people,
they have made themselves execrated. If a shell could have
fallen in their midst and exterminated the whole race et
hucksters, it woud have been of great benefit to the South.
The population was now aroused, the streets filled with
women and children making their way to the upper part or
the city, where they would find comparative safety. The
volunteer fire brigade brought out their engines, and parties
of the citizen reserves were organised rapidly and quietly,
to be in readiness to give assistance where required. The
first engine that reached the house struck by the first shell
was one belonging to a negro company, and at it they went
with a will, subduing the fire in a marvellously short time.
At every successive whirr above them the niggers shouted
quaint invectives against "cussed bobotitionists," scatter-
ing for shelter until the danger was past. Through the
streets I went, and down to the Battery promenade, meet-
ing on my way sick and bed-ridden people carried from
their homes on mattresses,and mothers with infants in their
firms running they knew not whither. Reaching the
promenade, I cast my eyes towards the Federal position,
and presently beyond James Island, teems the marsh
that separates it from Morris Island, came a flash, then
a dull report, and, after an interval of some seconds, a
frightful rushing sound above me told me the path the shell
had taken ; its flight must have been five miles I—Cornhill
Magazine.

THE FEDERAL REPULSE AT PETERSBURG.—The
New York Herald publishes a letter from its army
correspondent describing the repulse of the Federals as fol-
lows :—" Gen, Pierce commanded the left of the front line
of attack, and Major Hooper, of the 15th Massachusetts, the
right. Their troops were formed in two heavy lines. The
right of the line was formed under a crest, which protected
it from the fire from the rebel breastworks they were going
to assault, near the line of the City Point and Fredericks-
burg Railroad ; but the lest was exposed to a most murder-
ous fire the moment it was in sight. The line advanced, and
the soldiers rushed over a fence along the road with which
the breastwork was nearly parallel ; they rushed forward
gallantly, but could not withstand the deadly fire of mus-
ketry, grape, and canister that was poured upon them from
that stronghold of the enemy. On the right of the line our
men reached to within about 75 yards of the earthworks,
and on the left to within about 200. But the fatal fire was
too much for even such gallant fellows, many of whom fell
never to rio again. The lines were accordingly compelled
to fall back a short distance to the point from which they
advanced, leaving the dead and some of the wounded in the
possession of the enemy. Another attack was ordered to
take place at another point, for the purpose, if possible, of
cutting through the rebel lines. This was a regular storm-
ing party, cumpoted of several brigades formed in columns
of regiments. The troops moved forward in two columns,
Col. Madell's brisade leading the advance of one column,
and Col. Champlin's the other. Shortly after 4 p.m. these
imposing columns were moved forward, and in a moment
' they were moving in splendid force towards a strong rebel
' line of breastworks strongly de:ended by infantry and artil-
lery. These immediately opened a terrific fire, and the heads
of eolums were lost in clouds of smoke—lost in the very
jaws of death. The battery was so close, the fire so strong
as well as sudden, and the men fell eo fast, that those in
front were soon cut down or scattered, and others, instinc-
tively seeking the shelter which some neighbouring build-
ings afforded, broke from the column, throwing them into
considerable confusion. The troops were then wisely with-
drawn, as a further sacrifice of human life, under these oir •
cumstances would be criminal."

INNS OF COURT.—The Benchera of the Inas of
Court in December, .1863, issued new regulations
to students qualifying for the bar, and among others insti-
tuted exhibitions to be competed for by students who had
attended the lectures and classes of the several readers. The
Council of Legal Education, to whom is intrusted the duty
of superintending the instruction of students for the bar,
have directed that the examinations for exhibitions on the
subject of the lectures delivered and classes held by the
several readers shall be commenced this day, July 4, at
Lincoln's-inn-hall. The exhibitions are of the value of 30
guineas each, to be held for a period of two years, to be
granted to the most proficient student in Constitutional Law
and Legal History, and to the most proficient student in
Jurisprudence, Civil, and International Law, and also to
the students of the advanced classes in Equity, on Real
Property Law, and on the Common Law. Junior Exhibi-
tions, to continue for a like period of two years (but to
merge on taking a superior exhibition), of the value of 20
guineas per annum, will be awarded to the most proficient
students, duly qualified, who have entered for the elemen-
tary examinations on the subjects of Equity, Real Property,
&c., and the Common Law. Mr Thomas Collett Sambas
has been appointed examiner in Constitutional Law and
Legal History, to be held this morning, the 4th of July,
from 9.30 to 12.30, and he will also examine in the afternoon
from 1.30 to 4.30 on Jurisprudence, Civil, and International
Law. On Tuesday morning, July 5, Mr. J. R. Kenyon,
Q.C., will examine in Equity from 9.30 to 12.30; and in
the afternoon of that day, from 1.3 t to 4.30, Mr. James
Charles Mathew will examine on the Common Law. On
Wednesday morning, the 6th of July, Mr John Sharper,
Q.C., will examine from 9.30 to 12.30 on the Law of Real
Property, &c., and in the afternoon of that day—viz., from
1,30 to 4 30 a general paper of questions will be issued to
the students embracing all the subjects on the foregoing
"LW
readers are at liberty to attend the several examinations,
and all members of the Inns of Court who have obtained
-ritten orders of admission from a bestehen or from oue
readers, are also to be admitted to the oral examine-
d th..

bona.
THE Fin.
PAIISON (says that absurdly named
-f the Court Chronicle, Mr Surley
correspondent U.
is
usually young man just in orders—too young
Hardbaks) ierlyn.gAti
ta
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ahaaucips
teabsanyetw-yi cfhuholehe
phraseke takeae dd
in orders, indeed, to be or,
fellow, with " a shining morn,
of hair. He is a great favourite v..-
a delight in his being "so unlike ap, nething absolutely
it, and who lie in wait for his doing stu,
uncanonical and improper. He is a great xert. at a Pic-Die--
away from
can sing a comic song if needed, and when quite
his " potent, grave, and reverend seniors," he can ._masts
noises of animals to perfection, smokes furtive pipes' .1t
night, despises his white tie, and, when ho isable, obscures it
under a lay neckerchief. He indulges in a wide awake hat,
and reads novels when he should devote himself to the
Fathers. Indeed, as my friend Jones says, he doesn't care
much for the " Papas" or the Fathers either, his chief care
is the daughters. And certainly he is a very amusing man
for a select tea party of ladies who aro pretty enough to
interest, and not old enough to check his unclerical mirth.
Ho is a very sharp fellow in his way, is an exceedingly
agreeable man for a companion in a walking tour, has one
or two smart and not very decent college stories, over
which he chuckles with an enjoyable sense of their
impropriety. He is a loud talker, a loud laugher; a
despiser of church authority and Convocations, a con-
temner of bishops, a sneerer at rubrics and paints' days—
altogether a man out of his element, ono who possibly might
have r niggled into notice at the Bar, but to whose peculiar
abilities the Church is a wet blanket, which he is constantly
making di arts to throw away. 01 course he usually belongs
to the Low or the Broad church party- Be is too lazy to
of
the
pic.nicing portion of his flock, where there
sympathise with hard work and parish visiting, except it be
the visiting
are champagne corks to be drawn and jokes to bo perpetrated.
Ho quotes Sydney Smith, and delights in nothing to much as
to be thought to resemble that reverend jester. If he is good
looking it is ten to one that he will marry a pretty girl
with money, right under the nose of some despairing captain
or other; obtain his rectory in, middle life, and subside
into a jesting old age of pert: and walnuts. Ho is one of these
men who have made our church as ridiculous as she is Ca`
gable of.becoming In the @yea of lioro.aniets and diaentera,

SPORTING INT El. IZIGENCE—This Day,

CITY BET rrno-THIS DAT.

n I,T STARES.
6 to 5 agst The / )uke
7to 4 agst Liddi.i igton
GOODT/ OOD STAKES.
Bto 1 agst Bally Edmond
8 to 1 agst Higb f iyer colt
10 to lagstßlonrLin
12 to 1 agst Made A p
13 to 1 agst Thal atria
14 to 1 agst Cloatc n
14 to 1 agst Myrtle
15 to 1 agar Balttitt hi Sera!
Very little betting. Moe tof time n3eupied in ecttling.

SHIPPING INTEL LIGENCE—This Days

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LONDON, July 4.—Wir_cl thin day at noon—North-
\\rust ; tnodcra.:e breeze and fine weather,

CLYDE, July 4.—Wind S.W.--Atrived—Jane, from St
Sago de Cub;.

CARDIFF, July 2.-IVind N. VT.—Sailed—St Pierre, for
St Thomas.

Hu LL, July 2. Wind S.W.—Arrived—Titania, from
Mi. amichi.

PORTSMOUTH, July
Majesty's ship Dromedary, from Malt 3, and proceeded for
Woolwich.

NEWPORT, July 2.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Louisa, for
New York.

GRIMSBY, July 3,—Wind N.ll7.—Arrived—Reliance,
from quebec.

(Br MAGNETIC TELEGRAPR)

GRAVE6END, Monday Morning;
Arrived, July 3—Seine et Tatuke, from Parie—Abonkir,
from Dunkirk—Furet, and Napoleon, from Gravelinee—
Alardua,from Soderham—Grey, from Havannah—Esturiaa,
...Torn Porto Rico—Regina, from Quebec—Flecha, from
Ghent—Spitfire, from Reggefure

DIAL, Monday Morning.
Anchored—Sir Harry Parker, from London for Shanghai.
Passed—Fanny schooner, from London, for West—
Scottish Maid. from Rouen, for Shields ; Aurora, screw
steamer, for Genoa, and William Miles, for Canterbury—
both from London.