The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-30 00:00:00

ERE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,INOVEMBEE 30, 1864.

has at least gracefully entered upon his
new duties, and has professed high and
liberal principles, which time, however, has
yet to test. At the splendid banquet given to him
last week by the Mayor of Dublin, he made an in-
teresting address, in the course of which he touched
lightly upon the capacities and progress of Ireland,
skilfully avoiding those vexed personal and politi-
cal questions which are in all assemblies the seed
of discord, but in Ireland are dangerously exciting.
The great evil and drawback of the vicesroyalty is
the partisanship and favouritism that sums almost

inseparable from it, and the new Lord Lieutenant
boldly disclaims all such influences, though we
apprehend he will find it difficult to be always
altogether on his guard against their invidious
agencies. He admits that he belongs to a particular
party, and, indeed, he would find it very difficult
or useless to deny it, seeing that he holds a Governs
ment office in an Administration not very remark-
able for disinterested liberality to non-party men.
But Lord WODEHUUSE denies that the fact of his
being a party man need prejudice his discharge of
his administrative functions. "I believe," he said,
" that there are duties superior to parties, and I
trust I shall never forget, as the representative of
the QUEEN, and as the chief of the Executive of
this country, that I owe to all parties and creeds
the impartial administration of justice without fear,
favour, or affection." This is the right spirit in
which the Governor of Ireland should act, but it is
unfortunately very difficult to keep up
that standard in the throng of conflicting
interests and petty manoeuvres which ours
round every court, but especially a viceregal
one. The progress made by Ireland of late years
called forth the congratulations of the new Lord
Lieutenant, who remembered having served on the
committee of the House of Commons on the Irish
distress of 1847. He mentioned, and the fact could
not have been uninteresting to hearers, that it was
the first committee of which he had been a member,
and the evidence given before it, particularly that
given by the late lamented Father MATHEW, rela-
tive to the condition of the people, made a deep
impression on him. 'Since then the land has greatly
changed, and, although there is much that the true
friends of Ireland
,must long to alter and amend,
still none can deny the visible change which has
come over the spirit of the times since those days
of suffering and sorrow. In an agricultural country,
as Lord WODEHOUSE very justly reminded his
hearers, progress is necessarily slow. Even in this
country, notwithstanding all the capital invested,
the invention and intelligence applied, and the
greater security of life and property, our agricul•
tural development has not kept pace with our pro-
gress in manufacture, in commerce, and in other
practical sciences. This is partly, perhaps, owing
to the more cautious and deliberate nature of the
men who follow that profession, their unwillingness
to try new schemes, their tardiness to adopt new
theories ; but Mother Earth herself is unwilling to
be hurried, and the returns she makes for labour and
skill and the application of science and capital, if

sure, are commensurately slow. Ireland has be-
sides many serious drawbacks, and there are some
of them so pressing that they drive from her the
best and most industrious of her children. The

Irish statesman cannot see without regret the con-
stant stream of emigration drawing away the life-
blood of the country, and would rather see her
capacities developed to support her population than
her population diminished to suit her present pros
ductive powers. Ireland has, indeed, great capa-
bilities as well as great obstacles to contend against,
and he who helps and encourages her to help herself
is doing her good aervicc. Load Worimuovsncuu.
aratulated his hesrers on the increased attention
that was being paid throughout the country to the
breeding of cattle, and also to the promised intro-
duction of a thorough system of drainage,
an improvement absolutely essential to agri-
cultural prosperity. The cultivation of flax
was also touched upon by Lord WODEHOUSE as an
important feature in the brightening prospects of
the country. Even allowing for a speedy return of
the cotton trade to its former plenty and prosperity,
the flax manufacture is too valuable and too useful
to lose its hold. Ireland bag always been cele-
brated for its linen manufacture, and it is satisfac
tory to find the trade reviving, and 10,000 power-
looms are said to be now at work in Belfast. What
' is an important point in considering this subject
is that the machinery used in the ilia manufacture
is also made in Belfast, to that Ireland must no
longer be reckoned as exclusively an agricultural
country. Such a notion, as Lord WODEHOUSE re-
marked, will always have great difficulties to con-
tend against, and it is very much to be desired that
the more profi,able and remunerative employment
which manufactures and machinery affords should
by degrees be substituted for the unskilled and ill-
paid work of the present Irish labourer. All these
auguries are favourable ifor the future of Ireland,
but how far they are fulfilled must depend a good
deal on her people themselves. The miracles of
our day, said Lord WODEHOUSE very truly, are not
wrought by magicians. " They are the miracles
of industry wrought by the hands of the labourer
and artisan, directed by the intelligence of the
manufacturer, the intelligence of the engineer, the
intelligence of the enterprising capitalist." These
are the miracles which Ireland needs, and which
she must work for herself if she is to emerge from
the clouds that have so long overshadowed her
path, into the sunshine of national prosperity and
contentment.

MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY.

A sequel hardly ever comes up to the antecedent
narrative of which it is a continuation. Here, how-
ever, is not only an exception to this all but invae
riable rule, but a very signal exception, indeed—in
other words, precisely one of those exceptions
proverbially spoken of as proving it. " Mrs
Lirriper's Lodgings" is memorable as the great
success among all the Christmas numbers of
Charles Dickens's cheap periodical meaning
thereby not merely All the Year Bound, but
(together with that) the original weekly, still incore
porated with it, Household Words. Among all the
Christmas numbers of both those popular serials,
" Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" bears away the palm
triumphantly. It surpasses even the very best things
in " The Holly Tree Inn"—even, that is to say, the
Introduction to the Holly Tree Inn and the delect-
able story about Master Walmers junior, related by
that cousin-german of Sam Weller, The Boots !
Well, and, here, in "Mrs Lirriper's Legacy," we
have to the full as good as ever we had even in
" Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings." It is a sequel
worthy of its name as such for, it is,
is intrinsic excellence as well as in actual narrative
a distinct continuation. Mr Dickens takes up the
thread of his discourse unbroken. At starting, he
evidently finds himself to be thoroughly in the vein.
And, it is not so much the great Realistic Humorist
who is talking to us, here, ventriloquially, through
one of the whimsicalist and happiest of his seasonable
disguises as a story teller. It is, rather than that,
after its fashion—a very case of literary metempsy-
chosis! It is, in other words, that dear old Lodge
ing House Keeper of number Eighty-one, Norfolk.
street, Strand, London, in the county of Middle-
sex (as Jemmy Jackman has it, iu his ceremo-
nious introduction of her to the Assessed Taxes) in
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
—it is Mrs Emma Lirriper herself, in person, with
her own original scheme of punctuation, with her
own distinctive system of orthography, when she
finds her language or her ideas soaring to any
unusual " heighth"—it is that dear old soul and no
other (not even her creator, MrDickens)—who talks
to us here as she only can talk to us. Mrs. Lirriper (as
they say in the French Chambers) ala parole! In
the Introduction that is, and in the Concluding
Chapter—she has it ! Remembering which—re.
membering what " Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" turned
out to be in its Introduction and its Conclusion—
the best Reader-outaloud in (we wonder how many
home circles this season !) may certainly exclaim
quite cheerily with Young Sparkles himself while
preparing to read out Mrs Lirriper's Legacy—" Now
then ! I'm going to read, Once, twice, three, and
away. Open your mouth and shut your eyes and
see what Fortune sends you. All in to begin !" and
the like! For—so long as Charles Dickens wields
the pen therein—Mrs Lirriper is again at her beat !
And Jemmy Jackman ! And the incomparable boy,
J. S. L.,— who is still " a boy" remember! only
appearing now for a while, as he does, when home
once more on his holidays. Setting out
out upon her gossipping soliloquy, dear old Mrs
Lirriper gives us, even upon starting, a taste of her
quality—in her reference to the builder's " putting
the chimney-pots on by guess-work like hats at a
party." Referring afterwards to " these hotels
calling themselves Limited, but called Unlimited
by Major Jackman," she says, "rising up every-
where, and—rising up into flagstaffs when they
can't go any higher!" The first home•
news of any importance that she gives us,
however, from Number Eighty one is her ac-
count of the United Grand Junction Lirriper and
Jackman Great Norfolk Parlour Line (" injuring
the passengers almost equal to the originals")—" a
whole mouthful of name" as Jemmy says—with
Gran as the Public—shares taken at ninepence,
Preference at one-and-six, Rolling Stock, Perma.
nent way, and all the rest of it. Afterwards (as
the next home newa)—', Mentioning" says Mrs L,
" wy pool. Lit cipt r C Which cho hadn't at thy moment.
in the least !] brings into my head his youngest
brother the doctor "—and thereupon we learn all
about an entirely new character—Joshua Lirriper,
the scap,grace and ne'er-do-well among the Lirri.
pers. We hear of him, for example, as not only
pursued by
,the bailiffs, as one may say within an
inch of his life, but as " once taken in the passage
of this very house with an umbrella up and the
major's hat on giving his name with the door-mat
round hint as Sir Johnson Jones, KC B , in
spectacles residing at the Horse Guards !" This
being the very occasion when he has politely
offered Mrs. Lirriper the choice " between
thirty shillings in hand and his brains on the
premises''—`' a threat that gave me," she says,
" such a dreadful turn, to think of the brains
of my poor dear Lirriper's own flesh and blood flying
about the new oilcloth!" The upshot of this incident
however being—not the scattering of the brains of
Joshua Lirriper, but his capture, as already
mentioned, according to
his sister-in-law, by
" two gentlemen that I should • have judged
to be in the feather-bed trade if they had not an.
nounced ,the law." The Major (as his good old
" a very passionate man
fforirenbdisteslilzseu„s) sios cnoomt ictaollbye
taken in by Joshua's
appeals for sympathy or rather for assistance—but
Mrs. Lirriper, on the contrary, is moved almost
allusions to his vile duns
gtoeotenaarnsdbbyisthmeovoalgdaybd's
sotnraw
'picturing him as " dressed
almost entirely in padlocks like Baron Irenck."
Next, we hear from Mrs. Lirriper all about the
tAhsesme B,s cmd
r.ll3'a4xffie
whose meaningbusiness manners are not
the local collector of

to say agreeable. " Over taxing," as our delightful
gossip justly remarks, " you have no control, but
suspecting is voluntary." The Major's warmth—
" not relishing being spoke to with a pen in
the mouth "—coupled with his strong objections
to a low-crowned hat with a broad brim
being kept on in doors—lead to a delightfully
onions scene, in which Jemmy Jackman unhats Mr
Buffie in his (the Alajor'e)
Capacity as self.appointed
collector of the two quarters Gallantry Texts
then due ! The scene ending with the Major,
in a rampant state, exclaiming, in allusion
to the pen, "Take your bit out, Sir ! Or,
by the whole infernal system of Taxation in
this country and every individual figure in
the National Debt, I'll get upon your back
and ride you like a horse !" " Which," says
Mrs. Lirriper,
"it's my belief he would have done
—even actually jerking his neat little legs for a
spring.'' Tha defiant attitude assumed after this
fashion, by Major Jt.ckman, towards that local im.
personation of the Assessed Taxes, Mr. Bufils,
extends even, it should be said, beyond the pecu.
liar occasion referred to—being renewed upon Mr.
Bulifie'e next round, when the effect, as we hear
from Mrs. Lirriper, of the Major's threatening
aspect, when spruced up and humming a tune,
up and down the street " with one eye almost ob-
literated by his hat—there are not expressions in
Johnson's Dictionary to stater Good is brought
even out of Mr Bufflp, even out of the whole race of
Bullies, by Mrs Lirriper's way of viewing them
through their domestic calamity of a fire.
A calamity signalled to the Lirriper hone:,
hold one night by the Major himself so very
characteristically ! "Dress yourselves Fire !
Don't be frightened !—Fire I Collect your pre-
sence of Mind !—Fire I There's nothing to be
alarmed at—Fire I You're quite composed and
comfortable, ain't you ?—Fire, Fire, Fire !" From
the "scampering by, bejoyful and ready to split," of
an unfeeling young monkey—to " the crackling of
flames and spatting of water and banging of
engines and breaking of glass," we have the whole
scene brought vividly, almost, one might fancy,
within range of one's sight and hearing by a few
wonderful touches of Mr. Dickens's pen, or
rather, we should eav, by a few wonderful
tones of Mrs. Lirriper's voice, until there is "car.
vied in a chair similar to Guy Fawkes—Mr.
Buffle in a blanket !" After him Mrs. Buffla
similarly enveloped—after her Miss Baffle—after
her her lover, "Mr. ,Buffle's articled young gentle-
man, in another blanket—him a holding round the
necks of two men carrying him by the
legs, similar to the picter of the disgraceful
ereetur who has lost the ,fight—his hair hav4a9

the appearance of newly played upon." The rescuer
of these unfortunates being, as it turns out, Major
Jackman—the Major in that capacity having, Mrs
Lirriper informs us, "stood at the foot of the Fire
Escape and claimed them as they came down—the
young gentleman head foremost which accounts !"
There is a charming incident related immediately
afterwards, through which we come to learn
how Mrs Lirriper, dear old soul, goes to the
aid of her especial rival in the lodging line,
Miss Wozenhatn," lower down on the other side of
the street." To this incident we can here, how-
ever, no more than very briefly allude—worthy
of especial examination though it is throughout,
from the first meeting of the two ladies in the
presence of " a not unfeeling elderly person that
might have been better shaysd in a cotton night-
cap with a hat over it offering a polite apology
for the mumps having worked themselves into
his constitution"—down to the incidental men-
tien of Miss Wozsesham keeping " a brother
that had had the misfortune to soften his brain
against the hard mathematics as neat as a new
pin in the three-pair-back represented to lodgers as
a lumber.room and consuming a whole shoulder of
mutton whenever provided !" Before the two ladies
part, Mrs. Lirriper tells us " We got as merry as
grigs—whatever they are if you happen to know my
dear—l don't." But—all this said and done—
there is still Ileft to be mentioned The
Legacy ! Mrs Lirriper's Legacy ! The announce•
ment coming to her all the way from Sens, "made
out upon grocery paper stamped all over with
eagles !'"Thereby, indeed, hangs a tale ! It is a
Legacy, as the reader soon begins to suspect—long
before Mrs Lirriper does, who is telling him—a
Legacy in the shape of a gold watch and a few
small goods and chattels from poor young Jemmy's
father, then and there lying dying at Sens. Thither
—to find out what the mystery may mean,
at the same time that the excursion gives
an object to their projected holidays—thither go
Mrs. Lirriper, the Major, and Jemmy—that is, to
Sens via Paris. The Major, at the mere prospect
of the journey, being "like the wild man of the
woods after meeting with an advertisement in the
papers telling him of something to his advantage I''
Their very passage across the Channel enlarges
Mrs. Lirriper's knowledge, realising to her, as it
does, that "the foreigners insides appear to be con-
structed hollower than the English, leading to
much more tremenjous noises when bad sailors.'
Can anything be better again than Mrs.
Lirriper's definition of the difference discernible
between the Major's proficiency in French and
Jemmy's ? " The only thing wanting in Jemmy's
French," she says, " though he fires away at 'em
lovely is as it appeared to me that he hardly ever
understood a word of what they said to him,
which made it scarcely of the use it might
have been though in other respects a perfect
Native." "Regarding the Major's fluency,"
on the other hand, she says, " I should
have been of the opinion judging French
by English that there might have been a greater
choice of words in the language !" Her description,
moreover, of Paris, as it appears to a stranger for
the first time, is admirable—the old lady summing
it all up to the Young Rogue by saying, in answer
to his inquiry what she thinks of this lovely
lovely Paris—" Jemmy, I feel as if it was beuuYal
fire works being let off in my head." So too is
her description, for that matter, of France
Provincial, when they have left Paris for
Sens, the place of their destination —with all the
lumbering;old:vehicles, having "mud for paint and
rope for harness—every new friend dressed in blue
like a butcher—every new horse standing on his hind
legs wanting to devour and consume every other
horse—every man who had a whip to crack, crack-
crack•crack•crack-cracking it, as if it were a school..
boy with his first 1' But Sens—and the deathbed
scene there—and Jemmy standing unconsiously by
his father—the boy's cheek pressed against the poor
creature's forehead as ho dies—Read that, the
heart, the core of this little mystery of " Mrs.
Lirriper's Legacy," not here second-hand as by
momentary and tantalising glimpses, but in the
o-iginal words of the great novelist, and read
those words, it you can, without tears! Tuat por-
tion of it all, to our mind, is simply exquisite.
And so—turning from the deathbed to the more
cheery parts of the Introduction, as Jemmy himself
ssys in one part of it—" Vive the Military English !
Vive the Lady Lirriper ! Viva the Jemmy Jack.
man Ditto! Vive the Legacy !"

ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Mr. and
Mrs. German Reed, after being absent for some
considerable time from the metropolis, commence another
season of their agreeable " Illustrations of Character" on
Monday next at eight o'clock. They will be joined, as of
yore, by Mr John Parry. They offer no novelty at present,
but commence with the popular pieces of " The Rival Com-
posers" and " The Bard and his Birthday," Mr John
Parry winds up the entertainment with " Mrs Roseleaf out
of Town."

THE REV. E. A. HILLYARD AND BROTHER IG•
NATIUS.—The Rev. E. A. Hitlyard has received
from the Poor-law Board their decision as to the inquiry
into his conduct recently held at Norwich b) Sir J.Walsham,
one of the inspectors of the board. It is to the effect that
the board will not interfere as regards Mr Hillyard's prac-
tices in the parish church of St. Lawrence, Norwich, as they
consider his proceedings there not to come within their
jurisdiction ; but they consider the allegation as to neglect
of duty to be proved, inasmuch as he neglected to catechise
the children in the boys' and girls' " Homes" on the occa-
sion of his visits to those establishments, as prescribed by
the general orders of the board. The board, therefore, re-
quest Mr. Hillyard to resign his appointment as chaplain
of the Norwich Workhouse. By the same post a copy of
the letter was sent to the chairman of the Norwich Board
of Guardians.
THE VISITORS' BOOK AT SCIIIVALBACEf.—Ae-
cording to the custom of all watering places, there
is published a list of the visitors, or as it is here termed, a
Eur-lisle, from which everybody who is curious can see
who everybody else is. A few items from the number now
before me are worth extracting. The empresses were de-
fined by their travelling titles simply as follows :—Frau
Grafiu Borodinaky nebst drti Kindern, aus St. Petersburg ;
Comtesse de Pierrefonds, aus Paris. The following blun-
ders are amusing (I have altered most of the English names):
—Dr. Doe, Cambridge Collegue, England ; Madame
Madame Wilieminoff, with Princess° Lydie Wirimsky, son
neveu ; Colonel Helene Rostiker ; Mrs Styles und Mr
Nukes, mit Sohnchen, aus England ; Miss Charles Roo,
ens Miss Wiesbanen ; Marcheisso of Angleka, aus Eng-
land. The continental nations have an odd love for titles,
as for example : —Frau Doctor von Biltering, aus Curland ;
Fran Geneialin Bosse, aus Wiesbaden ; Frau Buchbindar
Atinger, aus Stuttgart. And then there are some curious
names, as Mad. und Fraulein Brautigam, Fraulein Schuh,
Fraulein Sauerwein, Fraulein Graf nebst, Fraulein Bauer,
Frau Schafer und Frau Fischer, Fraulein Teufel, aus
Berlin. But in opposition to this we have llcrr Itosanoff,
Psalmist, aus Stutgart, and the Rev. Hon. St. John.
Lastly we commend the names of the following distin-
guished personages as studies in pronunciation :—Furstin
Lwoff, Baronin Csekonicshissthay, Mad. Argyropoulenee
de Creszoulesco, Hepexoba, Kpomkabe C. Remepsypca,
Floirzoba Cypsyseoba Ca Nemepndyyre.—Macrittllan's
Magazine.
A MUSEUM AND SCHOOL OF ART FOR NORTH.
EAST LONDON.—A vigorous movement has commenced
in north-east London for the purpose of establishing a
museum and educational classes connected therewith. The
great distance of South Kensington from the hives of in-
dustry in the opposite quarters of the metropolis, and the
consequent inconvenience and loss of time incurred by
workmen who desire to profit by its advantages, have given
rise to a very wide-spread feeling on their part for an art
museum in their own locality. The first public meeting
will be held on Friday next, in the Holy Trinity School-
rooms, Heaton, and it is proposed to hold meetings through-
out the whole district.

HORSE BREEDING IN RUSSIA.—Since the ex-
portation of horses from Russia has been authorised
that trade has attained considerable proportions. In 1863
more than 1,000 were embarked at the port of Odessa for
Constantinople alone, and 300 were sent overland to Con-
stantinople, thence to be forwarded, it was said, to Italy,
for the service of the army. The province of the Don con-
tains, according to official returns, 372,629 horses, 961,766
head of horned cattle, 2,431,506 sheep, and 2,000 camels.
There are 335 breeders in the country.
GARIBALDI'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE YACHT.--
The following letter has been received by the com-
mittee :—" Caprera, Nov. 13, 1861.—Ladies and Gentle-
men,—The yacht which you have presented me is indeed a
precious gift, and immensely more precious is the generous
benevolence with which you have honoured me. I shall
all my life bo justly proud of having—not merited, because
it was merited by others rather than myself—but, by good
fortune, gained your sympathy. Benefactors to me, a
humble individual, this is a gift on behalf of the sacred
cause of my country—the cause of every oppressed people.
With every grateful feeling of my heart, lam yours,
GIusEPPE GAEIBALDI,—To the generous Subsuibers of
the Yacht,';

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

AME RICA.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29 (Evening).

The North American arrived in the river at 10 30
p.m. While entering the Mersey the North Ame-
rican ran into and sunk the brig Mercator, Capt.
D'Olsen, from Odessa for Liverpool. Crew saved.
The New York Herald of the 17th says :—The
rebels have of late been engaged in the construction
of a dam across a small creek which empties into
the Appomatox river near Petersburg, with the
design, after a sufficient quantity of water should be
secured, of breaking it and flooding the Union lines,
thus driving back our army and regaining some of
the ground which has been so gallantly wrested
from them by Grant's soldiers. Works to counter-
act this arrangement have been constructed on the
Union side. General Eagan, who has had the su-
perintendence of these, was wounded in the arm on
Sunday night by a rebel picket while making an
examination of them. A sharp fight, apparently
without any important result, occurred between the
pickets in front of a portion of the army of the Po-
tomac on last Monday night. An attack by the
enemy in considerable force is daily looked for.

No information of the exact whereabouts of Gen.
Sherman has yet been made public. A Nashville
despatch states that the rebel General Hood's army
is still in the neighbourhood of Florence, Alabama,
one corps of it being on the north side of the Ten-
nessee river. The bad condition of the roads, it is
said, prevents Hood making any active demonstraa
tion. Over 2,000 Union soldiers left Indianapolis,
on Tuesday, for active service in the field, and
5,000 still remain there.
The Richmond Whig contains rumours that Hood
took Decatur, Alabama, and captured the garrison
of 8,000 troops, half of whom were coloured, on the
28th ult. A rebel attack on Huntsville, Alabama,
is aiso reported.
The Montgomery Mail of the 7cla inst. is expect.
ing an early advance upon Augusta or Macon by
Sherman.

The Richmond Examiner ridicules the idea of
any such movement.
The latest rebel newspapers have an amusing
despatch in reference to the cavalry fighting in the
Shenandoah Valley on Saturday last, of which our
correspondents have furnished the particulars, and
in which the rebels suffered severely, one portion
of them being driven through Front Royal by Gen.
Powell, who captured from them two cannons,
150 prisoners, and considerable ammunition.• The
rebel despatch says that Sheridau's men were driven
back with heavy loss, including 200 prisoners cap-
tured, while Early's loss was slight. Brigadier
General Tyler has forwarded to the War Depart-
ment in Washington a black flag captured from
Early's command in August last. The efficiency
and activity of General Sheridan's cavalry is shown
in the fact that the first division of it, under Merritt,
has captured during the present campaign 29 pieces
of artillery, 2,000 prisoners, 18 caissons, 100 wag-
gons and ambulances, and 14 battle-flags.
General Pope, commanding the department of the
North-west, in his report of affairs in his district for
the past year, says that he proposes to do away
entirely with the usual style of Indian treaties. He
will use the army, which, he says, is amply suffi-
cient for the purpose, to enforce good behavour on
the part of the Red Men, and to prevent imposition
and unfair dealing with them on the part of the
whites.

A orawal which ham arriv-ze at Halifax tram 13-er-
muda brings the news that the rebel privateer
Chickamauga was at Five Fathoms Hole on the 7th
inst. She had captured a barque and two schooners
in addition to those before reported.
The bombardment of Charleston (S.C.) and Fort
Sumter is reported as being still continued with
steadiness and severity. Ten Union war vessels
and 73 transports aro reported at Hilton Head.
The following is the offit3ial Confederate account
of Gen. Forrest's attack on Johnsonville

PARIS (TENN.), OCT. 31.

Lieut..Gleneral R. Taylor,—My batteries on the
Tennessee river have engaged the enemy all day
with great success. Two gunboats and two trans-
ports were destroyed in attempting to pass. One
gunboat and two transports are now in my pcsses-
sion, ready for use, unhurt. The other gunboat
and a transport floated down the river in a disabled
condition, and both will be either deAroyed or caps
tured, as my troops are still in pursuit,
(Signed) N. B. FORREST, Major-General.

Opposite Johnsonville (Tenn.), Nov. 5.
Mejor-General Forrest, on the 'lt inst., achieved
another great victory.
He placed a battery above Johnsonville, moved
up his artillery from below, and caught at Johnson-
ville three gunboats, two transports and about 20
barges. He planted his batteries at night and
opened with eight pieces, and after an engagement
of 10 minutes the gunboats were set on fire and
consumed.

The batteries opened on the transports and barges,
all of which were set on fire and destroyed. The
engagement was terrible. The enemy opened with
40 howitzers from their fort and gunboats, but not
a man quailed under the storm of shell. The e.n•
noniers had their rammers shot in two and their
clothes and boots shot off. Since last Sunday
Gen. Forrest has captured and destroyed 14 trans-
ports, 4 gunboats, 20 barges, 32 pieces of artillery,
over 20,000 tons of freight, and over 3 million
dollars worth of stores. Our loss has been only 10
men wounded. Johnsonville is still burning. The
immense amount of freight on shore covering several
acres will all be consumed, as it is now burning and
the enemy cannot extinguish it, as our batteries
command the banks.

(Signed) M. C. GALLAWAY.
Tuscumbia, Alabama, Nov. S,

General Forrest reports that on the sth inst. he
was then engaged fighting the enemy at Johnson-
ville, having already destroyed 4 gunboats of S guns
each, 14 steamers, and 20 barges, with a large
quantity of quartermaster and commissary stores
on the landing and in warehouses, estimated at
between 75,000 to 10,000 tons. Six gunboats were
then approaching, which he hoped to capture or
deetroy.

(Signed) G. T. BEAUREGARD.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
llerahl says:—

" The necessity for the adoption of some fixed
policy in reference to the proposed return of the
Seceded States, is being vigorously pressed upon
the Administration. General Banks, and other
distinguished gentlemen now here, represent that
the assistance, countenance, and protection of the
Government to the Union men in the Southern
States—such am Louisiana Arkansas, and Georgia
—in changing the system of labour heretofore
existing in those States, will secure not only their
return but their permanent adherence to the Federal
Union. These people are now at a loss to know
what status they aro to occupy in returning to the
Union. All they want is a certainty of Govern-
ment protection and aid. Without this assurczee,
and adoption and promulgation of a fixed policy
on the subject, no peace propositions need be tx,

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peeled, and:no return to alleg
afte
have alreadf
be made, bat even in the States which
social as well "
declared in favour of coming back,
civil war will be inaugurated. ianos will here
fined
The Secretary of the Treasury finally dett.rmi
to-day to carry out his purpose of anticipating Par
went of Treasury interest on gold interest bonds,
and the necessary orders were that afternoon sell'
to the Atsistant-Treasurer at New York.