The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

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AMERICA.
(Per the City of Washington, via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, MAY, 14 (Morning.)
No fighting took place at Spottsylvania on the

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11th instant. Early on tie morning of the 12th
Hancock vigorously charged, and captured the
Confederate rifle-pits in his front, with 4,000 pri-
soners, two generals, and 30 guns. The battle con-
tinued furiously throughout the 12th, but all efforts
to further penetrate Lee's lines were unavailing.

During the night of the 12. h Lee retreated,
leaving only a line of ekirtnishers in Grant's front.
Oa the morning of the 13th inst. Grant started
two divisions to ascertain whether Lee was occupy•
ing a new position in the vicinity or making a
thorough retreat.
Reinforcements are being rapidly despatched to
Grant. _

Federal cavalry has destroyed portions of rail
road in Lee's rear.

Sigel has destroyed Charlottesville, Lynchburg,
and Gordonsville road.
Butler is advancing against Drury's Bluff.
There is an unreliable rumour of Sherman having
occupied Dalton.
Banks has retreated from Alexandria en route to

Semmes port.
The very latest accounts report Lee having
crossed the Po River.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Mei 14 ,Morning).
Money abundant ; gold, 721 per cent. premium.
Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 1301,;
Illinois Shares, 1241; Erie, 110; 6 per Cent. Usited
States Bonds, 1061-.

(FROM THE TIMES' OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEW YORK, MAY 13, 6 P.M.
General Grant reports that during Wednesday
night Hancock changed his position from the right
to the left centre of the Federal line, and at half-
past 4 o'clock yesterday morning assaulted Lee's
right, which he turned, capturing 23 cannon and
3,000 prisoners, among whom were Generals Ed-
ward Johnson, Robert Johnson, and George Stewart.
An engagement extending along nearly the whole
line followed, which continued with.greater or less
severity throughout the day.
General Sheridan, chief of Grant's cavalry, re-
ports, on the 10th inst., having destroyed eight
miles of railway in Lee's rear, and the recapture of
500 Federal prisoners.
Butler, under date near Chester Station, on the
afternoon of May 12, states that Gilmore held the
intrencbments at Bermuda Hundred, while Baldy
Smith was demonstrating against the enemy at

Fort Darling.
Reported, via Cincinnati, that the Confederates
had evacuated Dalton last night, and that Sherman
occupied the city to day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGEMCE.
Gold opened this morning at 173, and declined to
.70t, and closes 1721.
Exchange, 1884.
Government Sixes, 1881, registered, 1131 ; 5.20
Coupons), 106; 7-30, 1101.
New York Central Railway, 130; Erie, 1094;
[ilinois Central, 1231.

Cotton, 851.
Breadstuff3 lower; provisions dull ; sugars un-
changed in price ; coffee inactive.

NAY 14, 11 A.M.
Official and other despatches from Tefield, in Vir-
ginia, to 8 o'clock yesterday morning, show Han-
cock's achievement on Themday to have been less

decisive than at first represented ; but two generals,

Eiward Johnson and George Stewart, were taken

prisoners. Of the cannon reported captured, many
remained on disputed ground on Thursday night,
while it is not perfectly clear that a number of them
were not re-captured by the Confoderates.

No success whatever attended the Federals at
other points of the line, their assaults against Lee's
centre and left being invariably repulsed with great
slaughter, and at nightfall the Confederates main-
tained their position in front of Spottsylvania
Court House.
Yesterday, at daybreak, it was discovered that
during the night Lee had withdrawn acrom the
River Po, it is believed to occupy a stronger posi-
tion on the North and South Anna rivets.
Grant is represented to be in pursuit, but, as the
roads are in a bad condition, after the heavy fall of
rain, amid which tte battle was fought, he will have
considerable difficulty in following.
The carnage of Thursday is described as awful,
and the men on both sides to have fallen like grain,
No estimate of the loss is given.
There is a report that Sigel has out the Virginia
Central Railway between
Charlottesville and
Lynchburg, and another report that he has been
attacked and defeated by the Confederates under
Breckenridge.
Information was
received at New Orleans on the
7th inst. that Forrest's cavalry had gained posses-
sion of all Sherman's railway communications, and
had also destroyed several Federal transports on
the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
Letters from New Orleans of the 7th announce
that Banks is endeavouring to reach Bashear city
with his army, his retreat from Alexandria, via the
Red River, being cut off by the erection of Confe-
derate batteries on the banks of that stream.
The steamers Ohio, Belli, Laurel Hill, Bella
Donna, and Mittie Stephens, with supplies and
reinforcements for Banks, have been sunk or cap-
tured below Alexandria,
gunboats are above the
All Admiral Porter'a
the river into other
channels their capture is considered inevitable.
M
appointed to
falls of the Red River ; and, as the Confederates
have Punted the waters of
department of the
the
Pacific, and will leave for California immediately,
ca joomr .mGaentde r a
ofl theP Dowellrt
ahrays been
This step is supposed to have been taken in view of
the possibility of a rupture with France on the
Mexican question.
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday,
adopted a resolution to drop from the army rolls all
unemployed general officers, including Generals
M'Clellan and Fremont. Yesterday it passed the
Bill giving to soldiers and sailors, both coloured,
homesteads from confiscated Confederate estates..
Gold, 1721.

THr. RUSSIAN BUDGET FOR 1864,
ST. PEIERSBURG, MAY 24, Evening.
The Russian Budget for 1864, which has been
published to-day, shows an equilibrium.
The public revenue is estimated at 401,000,000
roubles, of which 355,000,000 are from ordinary
sources, 18,000,000 from Treasury Bonds, end
28,000,000 from the Anglo-Dutch loan.
The expenditure is estimated at 364,000,000
roubles, to which there are to be added 37,000,000
for extraordinary military expenses.

IVS :-

Italian Loan 69
Do. end month 69
New ditto 42
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 5l 50
from° Debt . . —
Deferred

Cash.
Orloan 8 .1111•11 877 50 .•
Northern
Lyona arta Mediterranean 875 .. 877 50
New ditto 872 50 ..
Southern 645 .. 646 25
Western
Eastern .... ,.. 467 50 .. 460 25
Sardinian
Austrian
L0n,1,9rd
North of Spain
Saragossa 555 .. 552 60
Ditto to Barcelona ~

Account,

Death of the Duke of Malakoff,

The telegraph announces the almost sudden death
of the Duke of Malalehoff, better known throughout
Europe as Marshal Pelissier. The Veteran general
has been for a long time past Commander-in-Chief
in Algeria. He was unexpectedly taken ill a few
days ago, and his iron constitution has given way
in a very brief space of time. These sturdy and
bluff French soldiers are often taken off at 70 or
thereabouts; they do not seem to have in them the
" calm repose" of peace which allows a Wellington
a Combermere, a Lynedoch, a Seaton, in our own
country, to live to extreme old age as honest squires
among their own people, without the slightest aspi-
ration after more glory.
Aimable Jean Jacques Pelissier, Duke of Mala-
khoff, and a Marshal of France, was born on the
6th of November, 1794, at Maromme, in the Depart-
ment of the Lower Seine. His father was a powder
manufacturer, or at all events connected with a
large powder manufactory ; and it was said of the
son that he " smelt powder" even in his cradle. The
boy was educated at the Brussels Lyceum, at the
School of Artillery of La Fleche, and then at St.
Cyr. Two days after the arrival of Napoleon from
Elba, Pelissier received his commission as sub-lieu-
tenant in the Artillery of the Royal Guard. During
the famous Hundred Days he was incorporated into
one of the regiments of the army of observation on
the Rhine. After serving in the Departmental
Legion of the Lower Seine he passed a brilliant
examination early in 1819, and was placed on the
royal staff. In 1823, as lieutenant of Hussars, he
made the Spanish campaign, and was aide-de-camp
to General Grindler. His:conduct in this campaign
won him the orders of the Legion of Honour and
of St. Ferdinand. He was attached successively to
the staffs of Generals Bourcke, Yellin, and Ledru
des Essarts. Pelissier was appointed captain, April
1, 1827. He became aide-decamp to Gen. Durrieu,
and in the campaign of the Morea—notably for his
bravery at the siege of the Castle of the Morea—
received the Orders of St. Louis and of the Saviour.
Pelissier became lieutenant colonel Nov. 2, 1839,
and was for three years director of the staff in the
province of Oran. He greatly distinguished him-
self by his bravery in the expedition against Tag-
dempt (May, 1841) at the fight of Ored Melab
(July 11, 1841), &ea and ho was named colonel
(July 8, 1842) after the expedition of Cheliff. But
as far as European notice is concerned, Pelissier
first acquired it by his exploits in Algeria (he had
been in Algeria before—in 1830), whither he went
in the suit of General Bournmont. Twenty years
ego his name was in every mouth in connection
with his summary way of dealing with the Ouled
Riahs, a Kebyl tribe which had never been subs
clued, because the country they inhabited contained
immense caverns into which it would have been
absolute insanity to lead invading troops. On the
18th of June, 1845, the Ouled Riahs finding them-
selves hotly pressed, retreated to their labyrinthine
caves. The grottoes were surrounded, and lighted
fascines placed at their entrances. The wretched
people refused to surrender; more lighted fascines
were thrown in. The Arabs refused to surrender
again, and 500 were smoked to death there. It is
needless to say that this awful story excited all
Europe ; and the French GOT ernment and the
French press were either indignant or faintly
apologetic. A French paper gave a harrowing
description of the dreadful two days in this oven—
two days sufficing for the complete baking of an
entire pastoral tribe, men, women, and children ;
their own cattle goring them in the darkness of
that awful prison. But as the official report ran,
it was necessary that these people (ces gene ta)
should be reduced to submission, and so they were.
The Marquis de Boissy took occasion to inveigh
most severely against the slaughter at Dehra, and
the Minister of the Interior, who had on a previous
day expressed his disapproval and regret for it,
warmly defended Colonel Pelissier (" One of the
most honourable officers of the army of Africa,
whom I shall always praise"), who, he said, had to
subdue assassins and traitors. Whatever opinion,
however, may have been expressed on either side
throughout Europe, though their tendency was
almost one-sided, Col. Pelissier was sheltered from
professional criticism by the boldness of Marshal
Bageand, who took upon himself the responsibility
of the whole matter. The naïveté of one French
writer is worth recording on this point, " The chas-
tisement with which M. le Colonel Pelissier smote
the Arabs serprised people by its novelty."
In 1846 Colonel Pelissier was rewarded with the
appointment of " Marechal de Camp," and in 1848
was made major-general and commandant of the
province of Oran. He further distinguished him-
self in Algeria, at the storming of Laghuat
especially. In 1850 (April 15) he was promoted to
a generalship of division; he commanded the pro-
vince of Oran, and was charged, ad interim, with
the governor-generalship. He was nominated
Grand Cress of the Legion of Honour, December
24, 1853.

General Pelissier's achievements, happily for
himself and his fame, were not confined to Algeria.
When the Russian war broke out he was placed i❑
command of the let corps of the Crimean army;
and on the 16th of May, 1855, he succeeded Mar-
shal Canrobert as Commander-in-chief of the
French army. On the 16th of August in that
year the Russians attacked the French position on
the Tchernaya, and were completely repulsed by
Pelissier, who had under him divisinns commanded
by Generals Herbillon, Canava, Faucbeux, and
Morriss.

The general's despatch announcing this glorious
result arrived happily enough just in time to fall in
with the grand entrance of the Queen of England
and the Emperor of the French into Paris—passing
through a double line of five miles of soldiery from
the Boulevards to St. Cloud; and it need hardly be
said that the acclamations of the Parisians were
considerably heightened by the glorious news just
then opprtunely received. •
On the 91h of the ensuing September the glori-
ous news was received in Paris of the capture of
the Malakhoff tower of Sebastopol by General Pe-
lissier's troops, who carried its redoubts and the
Redan of Careening Bay in a short time. This
finished the war. Sebastopol was taken. The
official Paris paper announced (Sept. 13), " General
Pelissier is made Marshal of France." He was
made Duke of Malakhoff (July 22) and a senator
of France. From 1858 (March 23) to 1859 (April
23) he held the somewhat uncongenial appointment
of Ambassador in London. In spite of the attrac-
tions of his young and beautiful wife, a connection
of the Empress of the French, the veteran marshal
did not, it is well known, find diplomacy at all to
his taste. He retired, was again sent to Algeria
(Nov. 24, 1860) as Governor-General, and there he
has died.
It rcmains to be added that in 1857 (March 18)
a pension of 100,0001 r. was settled on Marshal
Pelissier and his children ; that in the December of
the same year he was nominated Vice-President of
the Senate; in the February following, a member
of the Privy Council ; on the 23d of July, 1856,
Chancellor of the Legion of Honour.
however posterity may judge of the Duke of
Malakhnff's character, no one will deny that he was
a brave and Eelf-sacri:icing soldier. though he was
• a bluff and free spoken one. Hippolyte
to a very favourable biography of him, prefixes the
simple motto, " E triplex." However this may
t _ have been intended, the motto is exactly significant

lines are rather lower. of the marshal's character in its beat as in its least
1 praiseworthy phases.
It has been the good fortune of the Duke of
Malakhoff to be enabled, by the wise thoughtful-
ness and statesmanlike tolerarce of the Empec.or, to
blot out the remembrance of Colonel Pelissiers
dealings with the Arabs in his "green and salad
days." When the Arabs lately petitioned the Em-
peror for protection against the encroachments of
French settlers, it was through the veteran duke
that the Emperor transmitted to them the noble
message, " Remember that I am the Emperor
of the Arabs as well as Emperor of the French ;"
and the duke set himself loyally to work to carry
out this grcit maxim of the highest State policy
with a zeal and success wbic% have only stopped
short of the most hating good results because the
aged Governor-General has bean suddenly removed
from his turbulent but not inglorious proconsulate.

Ir. Newman and the " Athenaeum,"

-4.--

" More than one friend of Dr. Newman," says the
Athenceum," asks our attention to a paragraph in
our last notice of the ' Apologia,' in which we ap-
pear to have drawn a wrong conclusion from the
words employed to record the conviction of his call.
One of our correspondents says:—' Your reviewer
in the notice of Dr. Newman's ' Apologia pro Vita
sue,' Part 111., in the Ath6nceum of May 14, has by
mistaking whet he says, done the author a serious
injury, though of course unintentionally. I have
had no communication with Dr. Newman, and can-
not know whether the review has met his eye.
But, as his friend, I am very anxious, for his sake,
that the misapprehension should be corrected as
early as possible. Your reviewer supposes that Dr.
Newman still retains a conviction that he is
elected to eternal glory; in other words, that
he still holds the doctrine of final perseverance,
or inadmissable justification. But his own
words convey the very contrary mean-
ing; He says : ' One of the first books I read, was
a work of Romaine's ; I neither recollect the title
nor the contents, except one doctrine, which of
course I do not include among those which I believe
to have come from a divine source, viz., the doctrine
of final perseverance. I received it at once, and
believed that the inward conversion of which I was
conscious (and of which I still am more certain than
that I have hands and feet) would last into the
next life, and that I was elected to eternal glory.'
-Upon this, the reviewer observes, that ' it is well to
know that this conviction of his beieg chosen for
eternal glory has never passed away.' Dr. Newman
says that he is still certain of the tact of his inward
conversion ; but he does not say that he is certain
of his election to eternal glory, and that he still
holds the doctrine of the certainty of final perse-
verance. So far from it, that he expressly and
carefully repudiates it. For he says he does not of
course include that doctrine among those which he
believes to have come from a divine source. It is
evident that he rejects that doctrine now as a matter
of course, because he is a Catholic, and no Catholic
can hold it. What then Dr. Newman really says
is, that he still retains the conviction of his conver-
sion at a certain period ; but that the one doctrine
in question, which he received then, he rejects now,
as not having come from a divine source." As we
quoted the passage on which our remark was based
—the passage given above—our readers had already
before them the means of correcting an apparently
erroneous inference.

The Friend of Tranquillity and the Organ•
Grinder.

The following capital new version of George
Canning's renowned Stqaphics, in the Anti-Jacobin,
appears in our elegant and facetious little sixpenny
contemporary, The Owl, of this day (No. 1,004 !)
but just now published :

FRIEND Or TRANQUILLITY,
Seedy Savoyard, wherefore art thou grinding.?
Rough blows the wind, thy pipes aro out of order,
Old is thy tune, thy monkey is a nuisance,
So is thy organ.
Tiresome grinder, heed'st thou not the sick ones
Who on their couches restlessly reclining,
Tortured all day, roust hear thy hurdy-gurdy's
Merciless strumming

Tell me, Savoyard, how you come to grind so,
Did some foul fiend tyrannically use you ?
Why don't the Beaks or Beadle of the Parish
Thrust you in prison ?

Why can't some Babbage, for racking of his nerves, or
Beer-making Bass, for his ears distracting,
Or hardworked lawyer straightway pitch your little
All in a horse-pond ?
Have you not read the speech of Mr. M. Bass ?
Cheers of approval ringing through the Commons—
You and your chattering monkey must return to
Valleys of Savoy.

ORGAN GRINDER.
Savoy, Lord bless you; why should I roturn there?
Only last night, while grinding on my organ,
This poor old chap and monkey got eleven
Bob in an hour,

Babbage may rave and bluster, if he likes it,
Bass may make beer or speeches as he pleases,
I, for my part, Will not budge unless you give me
Sixpence to move on.

FRIEND or TRINQITILLITY.
I give thee sixpence I I'll see thee d— —3 first I
Wretch, whom no sense of nerves can move to pity,
Dirty, unshaven, pilfering, degraded
mpudent outcast.

Hall porters came up for L beg me not to
Make such a row, or they'd givo me into charge ; I
Laughed them to scorn, and asked them how they liked
" The Ratcather's Daughter."

Kicks the organ grinder, upsets his organ, lets loose
his monkey, and exit in a transport of rage.

PROFESSOR B kBBAUE AND THE ORGAN
GRINDERS.—If anything could make the calculat-
ing machine of Professor Babbage "break forth into sing-
ing," it would be surely the tidings that a bill is sliding
through the house for the abolition of street-music 1 Know-
ing the extent to which inhabitants in cities have to bear
and forbear, owing to difference of tastes and of hours, to
the thinness of walls and other inevitable circumstances,—
though possibly, few brain-workers are more largely as-
saulted than ourselves by " Faust" on two brass bands at
once, and "The Perfect Cure," and "II taalen," and the
Danish Hymn during three or four morning hours of the
season,—we have, on considerate principles, said less on this
evil than others whose lot is cast in stiller places; but of
late years it has grown so largely in dimension that we are
satisfied the distress and damage done by it to the sick and
the serious far outweigh any pleasure that it can give.
For one invalid who is cheered by it, twenty
are irritated into fever. For ten children who are set
dancing, in the balcony, by the dismal barrel-organ
(merriest, sometimes, when it plays a psalm tune), there
are more than one student or scholar who dare not begin
any grave work requiring abstraction till the time of night
when they ought to be closing the desk. Self-control, if
learnt at an early period of life. will, we are persuaded, do
much for dome time ; but it is past doubt that there are
many whose nerves it. will never harden—and thus, on
striking the balance, we cannot but express an earnest wish
that the blatrnt players on trumpets who finish by en-
dangering Christian bell-wires, as they impudently claim a
fee for "the music," may be confined to their proper sphere
of tea-garden and race-course, or any place where peoile
resort for noise and revel—and thai the penitential and
droning barrel organ, even if presided over by the bright-
eyed Italian who takes us pleasantly back to the South by
his " Ah, Signor! " may be constrained to " move on "
without the intervention of our blue-coated guardians,
whose number does not equal always our need of their

service.
ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION. —Last evening
Mr. Aitchison delivered a lecture " On the use of
Iron for Architectural Dill/OEM" The lecturer gave a
succinct description of the merits of iron for budding
purposes, and its advantages in many respects over other
building mater►als, such as stone, brickwork, timber. &c.—
first, fur its greater strength ; secondly, economy of space
occupied (a very important consideration in cities where
space is valuable, and, therefore, obliged to be economised) ;
thirdly, additional sttfely arising from its incombustible cha-
racter. He combated the opinion that iron was objection-
able on account of the difficulty of giving graceful forms to
it so as to render it beautiful or pleasing, and contended
that, if rightly treated, it might be rendered not only useful
but beautiful also. The lecture we s copiously illustrated by
diagrams showing its applicability, and was listened to
with great attention by a numerous audience and warmly
applauded.
THE PRINCE OF WALES, as President of the
Society of Arts, will present the Society's medals and prizes
at Willis's Rooms, on Friday, June 21.
THE, EMPEROR NAPOLEON is understood to have
offtred himself as a candidate for the vacant chair of
Mechanics, in the Academy of Sciences. Some opposition
is made to his Majesty's claim, but his election may be con-
; sidered as quite se.fe.