The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-06 00:00:00

PRIZE ME D A L.-INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION, 1862.
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CURIOUS FISH.—A curious specimen of the finny
race was caught in the water close to the beach, Wollon-
gong, a few days back. It was about a yard in length,
and had the head of an eel with a snake aike body. A pro-
fusion of bright yellow spots, as large in diameter as peas,
marked the tail on both sides. When thrown on the beach
after being caught it disgorged several small fish. Some
of the markings were more like those of a snake than a fish
The body bears a close resemblance to that of the four-toed
" saurophis" or snake lizard of Southern Africa, but was
minus the rudimentary toes and legs. It was a true fish,
and we believe new to icthyology.—llliwarra (Australian)
Express.

CONFEDERATE PREPARATIONS FOR THE CAM
PAIGN IN VIRGINIA.—Private information assures
me that the troops in Lower Georgia, Florida, South
Carolina, and North Carolina, have all moved forward under
the gallant Beauregard to the defence of Richmond, he
himself remaining with a few brigades in siege of Newbern
to cover the movements of the main army. General John-
ston has already spared a corps d'armee, and it is said that
even the Palladin Polk will appear in the fifth act with his
veterans. In view of these immense preparations you at
once comprehend the magnitude and importance of the
Virginia battle, now, perhaps, progressing. It is destined,
in the writer's humble opinion, to be not only the most
important in our history, but almost the decisive action in
event of southern success, of which none here doubt,—
Nassau Correspondent of The Index.

PLYMOUTH, Sunday Evening.—The iron steam
brig Harriet Pinckney, Johns, belonging to Mr.
Bond, and bound for Liverpool, put into Millbay this even-
ing for coal. She left Bermuda May 18, and brings 100
tons of tobacco, 703 bales of cotton, and also £70,000 in gold
chiefly on account of the Confederate Government. Among
her 14 cabin passengers are Mr and Mrs Musson, Mr H.
Tapp, Mr F. Skinner, Miss Desterre, the Rev T. Frith, and
Lieut. Brawley, who belongs to the 6th South Carolina
Regiment, and lost his arm May 31, 1862, at the battle of
Seven Pines, Chickahominy. He left Wilmington May 10
in the steamer Thistle, which followed the Confederate ram
Lawley, where she dispersed the Federal blockade ships.
At the mouth of the river ten of these were outside, and
one made an effort to overtake the Thistle. Ex senator C.
C. Clay, of Alabama, and Mr. Jacob Thomson, of Missis-
sippi, left Wilmington in the Thistle, and after arrival at
Bermuda started for Halifax. It is reported that they are
engaged in the secret service of the Confederate Govern-
ment. The Harriet Pinckney experienced head gales from
N E by E all the passage home, and spoke, May 24, in lat.
34 29 N, long. 45 10 W, the schooner Catherine M'Keever,
of Inverness, from Kingston for London; and June 3, in
lat. 49 32 N, long. 15 5 W, the French brig Ariel, 94 days
from Brazil for Havre.

(By Telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, MAY 26 (Afternoon).
The New York, Tribune of to-day asserts that
Grant's movement from Spottsylvania was not a
flanking movement, but a pursuit of Lee, whose
main army had already crossed the North Anna
River, when Hancock moved on Friday (20th).
General Lee's attack upon Grant's rear on Thurs-
day was made to cover his retreat.
Latest despatches from General Grant assert that
Lee has concentrated his army in a strong position
between the North and S mth Anna rivers. It will
require two or three clays to dcvelop Graut'6 opera.
tions.

NEW YORK, May 26 (Evening).

General Fitzhugh Leo has been repulsed in an
attack on Wilson's Wharf, on the north t•ile of the
James River.

Mr. Seward has c?Antnunicltcd to the House of
Representatives that ho has informed the French
Government that the resolution of the house on the
Mexican question truly interpreted the unanimous
sentiment of the American people;
but that the
decision on that question belonged solely to the
President, who at present did not contemplate de-
parting from the policy hither pursued.
The steamer Tristram Shandy has been captured.
The following is a summary
military movements since the departure of the pre-
vious steamer. of the most important

On the 20th General Grant marched to the
southeast, past Lee's right flank, to compel Lee to
abandon Spotteylvania.

movement,
Ewell and Longstreet
After rant'sV
Hancock, followed
position on the south ba the Confederate Generals
bynlarehed south.
ey,ilabgut the
On the 24th General
where he repulsed a
Grant was at Mount Oakmel
strong Confederate assault.
nk of the North Anna River,
Hancock and Warren were Parsuit on account of the
Cmheunr,schiatdieglua
ex-
pected to reach South
Leo was reported to Anna River by nightfall.
South Anna River to Hbe retreating beyond the
manover Court-house. The
latest despatches of G
that Lee has taken up
a eral Grant, however, state
North and South Anna strong position between the
rivers.
Grant had several encounters on the road, and
captured 1,000 prisoners
; but there has been no
general engagement.
The Confederates attacked
Butler's retrench-
ment several times, but
were_ repulsed.
It is announced that General Beauregard is re-
inforcing Lee.
General Banks's army
and Admiral Porter's fleet
have reached Semmesport.
Sherman is pursuing Johnston b
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NEW' YORK, May 24 (Evening.)
Money abundant. Gold opened -
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116 k ; 5.20 United States Bonds, 1061. Cotton
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MAY 26 (Evening).
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on London, 200; on Paris, 2.78.
Stocks
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Flour quiet. Wheat dull. Corn steady. Provi-
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City of Manchester, from
New Yorknm
on the
ult., arrived here at 12.60
QuEENsTowN,
June 4.
The Inman steamship
p.m. to-day, with 98 passengers and 417,613 dole.
in specie. She landed 20 Passengers, and proceeded
I2lst
for Liverpool at 4.45 p.m.
Her news has been anticipated.
QUEENSTOWN, June 5.
The royal mail steamship Scotia arrived here at
8.30 a.m. to-day, embarked maile, passengers, and
the latest telegrams, and Proceeded for New York
at 4 p.m. All well.
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The following general orders have been published
in the Richmond journals :
Head-qaarters, Heth's Division, May 11.
I am requested by General Lee and Lieut. General Hill
to express to this division their satisfaction at its gallant
conduct in attacking and carrying the enemy's lines of en-
trenchments on the 10th inst. Words are inadequate to
express to the division my admiration for all its gallant
deeds since the 6th inst. Much is yet left to be done, and I
know from the past that all these brave men can do will be
accomplished. H. HETH, Major-General.
Head-quarters, Army of Northern Virginia,
May 14.

Ist. The general commanding takes great pleasure in
anuouuoing to the armythe series of successes the, by

The Quarterly, always worth reading, is this
month more than usually interesting. Its subjects
range from the buried Italian city of ancient days,
with its curious and solemn revelations, to the clang of arms
and stirring troubles of present life in the battle fields of
Virginia. We are alternately called upon to analyse the
mysterious melody of Shakspere's sonnets, and to follow the
daring course of young William Napier through
the thrilling scenes of the Peninsular War. The
Empire of Mexico, old and new, is discussed in an essay that
treats of the hidden remains of Astec life ; and in another
page the foreign policy of Earl Russell receives so relent-
less an exposure that supporters of the Ministry can
scarcely read it with equanimity. The truth of the open-
ing passage is no less mortifying than conclusive. "We
have been brought up," says the writer, " to believe that
England's voice is of weight in the councils of the world.
Resting upon the great deeds of past days, we have borne
ourselves proudly in our dealings with other countries,
speaking in the tone of those who have proved by action the
weight and significance of their words. Until recently the
rank we have thus assumed has been accorded to us readily.
Those who remembered the great war refused to believe
that England could not make good her threats or ber pro-
mises if she thought fit; and, therefore, her representations
in many negotiations of deep European moment were
listened to with respect. Whatever the language in which
they were couched, whatever the wisdom of the statesman
from whom they came, foreign Ministers never forgot that
they were backed up by, in case of need, the fleet that
had baffled Napoleon and the army that had fought at
Waterloo.

But this condition of things has lamentably changed. No
one can be in the least degree conversant with the periodical
literature of foreign countries, or hear ever so little of the
common talk of foreign society, without being painfully
aware that an entire revolution has taken place in the tone
of foreign thought in regard to the position of England.
Her influence in the councils of Europe has passed away.
ThE, reputation of material power upon which that influence
was based has suddenly evaporated. It now fails to make
even the faintest impression upon States that formerly
yielded themselves absolutely to its spell.

Whatever else was said of us, no one ever thought of im-
pugning an Englishman's courage. If the Great War had
done little for our popularity, it had at least left deeply
graven on the minds of Continental populations that we
could fight. But all this is changed now. All the respect
for our national character which was founded upon a belici
in its cull-dog characteristics has disappeared. Our courage
is not only disbelieved, but it is ridiculed as an imposture
that has been found out. English bravado and English
cowardice are the common staple of popular caricatures.
The Englishman furnishes to Continental wits the same
sort of standing butt that the Yankee presented to us some
three years ago. The estimate of the English character
that is felt in every circle and class of society abroad, and
expressed without reserve by the press, may be summed up
in one phrase, as a portentous mixture of bounce and
baseness.

The writer follows up this commencement with a series of
comparisons of Earl Russell's policy towards the strong
and the weak—the affairs of Brazil and Japan, contrasting
painfully with the transaction respecting Poland and Den-
mark. We have not even the consolation of having main-
tained a dignified neutrality in any of the great
questions now agitating both hemispheres. We have
afforded indirect encouragement to Polish hopes. Wo
have used strong words in their favour, and then
left them unaided, while we mourn over the partition
which disgraced a former generation, and which our
virtuous indignation does not prevent us from seeing re-
peated in another part of Europe. With regard to Denmark
our conduct deserves a harsher name than mere futile pro-
fession, while as for the great Transatlantic struggle our
neutrality has long been recognised as little more than a
farce on both sides of the Atlantic. The passages cited in
this article from the speeches and despatches of Earl Rusell
must shame every lover of his country. Lord Wodehouse's
report of the language he held by directions of his chief tells
us that he used to the Danish Minister the following words:—
"It was my duty to declare to him that if the Danish Go-
vernment rejected our advice, her Majesty's Government
must leave Denmark to encounter Germany upon her own
responsibility." As the Quarterly very justly says, it was
scarcely possible to imply a promise of assistance in stronger
or more precise terms.. And what is the sequel ? " The
Danish King has been made to swallow the cup of humilia-
tion to the dregs—to alienate from himself the affections of
his people—to dishonour his own signature—to incur the
contempt and increase the audacity of his foes. But Eng-
land abandons him not less than she did before to encounter
Germany upon his own responsibility. If he had rejected
the officious advice of England with scorn and had turned
the English Plenipotentiary out of his capital as an intru-
sive meddler, he would not have been in a worse
position than he is now." How long will this
state of things be suffered by the English people ?
The article on Sir William Napier is one of the most inte-
resting in the number. Among the numerous graphically
told anecdotes of the hero's career, we meet with one which
well deserves quotation. The incident occurred at Casal
Nova where Napier was dangerously wounded—
He was carried off the field, and a very gallant and noble
minded officer, the present Colonel Sir J. M. Wilson, who
was advancing with his company of grenadiers, against the
enemy, descried him from a distance stretched on the
ground beneath an olive tree. "I ran towards him," writes
Sir John Wilson, who had never sat eyes on him before,
and said, ' I hope you are not dangerously wounded 1' at
which he shook his head. Have you been attended to by
a surgeon ?' He nodded assent. Can Ibe of any service
to you ?' and again shook his head, but did not utter a
word." Captain Wilson had a flask of tea and brandy, and
asked him if he would like a little. A sudden beam of
pleasure sparkled in his eyes, and he eagerly stretched out
his hand. Twice the tumbler was filled, and he drained it
with an air of intense enjoyment. " When he had finished,"
continues Sir John Wilson, "he seized my hand and
grasped it several times, as much as to say, ' I don't know
who you are, my good fellow, but I feel most grate-
fully thankful for your kindness' I then said, "Heaven
protect you l' and ran off to join my company. I was
deeply impressed with the classical outline and beautiful
expression of his countenance. In after-life, I often spoko
of this wounded officer as the handsomest man I had ever
beheld." They did not meet again for 16 years, and neither
recognised the other. The scene was dramatic which re-
vealed to them that their original interview had been be-
neath the olive tree at Casal Nova. Sir John Wilson was
staying with his father-in-law, Sir G. Houlton, at Farley
Castle, and the conversation after dinner turned upon
handsome men. "Of all the handsome men I have ever
seen," said Sir John, "in the various parts of the world
where I have been, there was none at all to be compared
with the one—" and he proceeded to relate the incident of
the wounded officer in Spain. With the tears trickling from
his eyes, Napier sprang from his chair, and puttirg his
arms rouLd his preserver, exclaimed, "My dear Wilson,
was that you? That glass of tea and brandy saved my
life I"

The tale of tho catastrophe of Pompeii has been often told,
but it has not yet lost its gloomy charm. The very full
narrative of the explorations in the city will attract the
curious. " Shakspere and his Sonnets" is the title of an
able article which considers that the chief part of those