The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-13 00:00:00

NEW YORK, JAN. 2 (Morning).
General Longstreet is reported to have retired to
It position in East Tennessee capable of being
strongly fortified, and having open communication
with North Carolina and Virginia, thus necessitat-
ing the presence of a heavy Federal force in East
Tennessee.
.The Chattanooga correspondent of the New York
ones asserts that General Grant has forwarded
to Washington a plan of campaign different from
any hitherto submitted.
General Pillow reports that Sullivan's column
has returned to Harper's Ferry from a raid in
Western Virginia, in which he captured 400 pri-
soners and a large amount of property.
Southern journals assert that General Averill in
his late raid lost 200 men and 8 officers.
The Richmond papers assert that General Rosso
has just Completed an entire circuit of General
aleade's army.
Mobile despatches state that the mutiny in Fort
Jackson below New Orleans was serious, three
gunboats having been sent to quell the disturbance.
The Confederate Congress has passed a bill that
t: Person, Were exempt from military duty because
to? furnished substitutes, and forbidding people
lest in Federal currency.
the he Richmond Sentinel urges the people to assist
and'inathern cause by sending their gold, silver,
13lateinto the Treasury in exchange for bonds.
Th NEW YORK, JAN. 2, 2 P.M.
out, e p
• ersitt and North America have arrived
The
tal th Federal Government has postponed the draft
middle of January.
"le Governor of New York has removed the
-i,ew York Police Commissioners, on the ground
t t:lkt their reports of the New York riots were sec.
41tn and partisan.
'3EV'eral more merchants of New York have been
;frested for carrying on a contraband trade with
"" South.

Archbishop Hughes, the Roman Catholic Arch-
bishop of New York, is dead.
Money tight. Gold 52 per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London—Bankers' bill 1664. Stocks
117 t
quiet. New York Centrals 132 k, Illinois Centrals
, Erie 107f,-. Petroleum--crude 32c. to 33c.,
refined 46c. to 47c.
The Kangaroo sailed to-day.
The Edinburgh takes out 400,000 dole, in specie.

SIR EDWARD BIILWER LYTTON, as a
say the Zoncion Review, probably exerted
a greater
novelist,
Power than any other, between the era ofSir Walter Scott
and that of Dickens and Thackeray, over the imagination
and feelings of his countrymen. There was.
hie consummate skill as an artist being une
acknow-
ledged, the moral tendency of his stories ivrsa
was sitiiy me when,
frequently
regard it as
raade the object of censure, but we
cannot
otherwise than creditable to him, lhatinmost. of his latter
Works, from
"The Cantons" down to "Caxtoniana," he has
sought to inculcate lessons of a sound
passions with
iitnhstead of
highly
Ilistag the fancy and
coloured pictures of romance. Such
the
tale as "My Novel,"
'bleb. is the best of the latterSuseehriens of his productions,
.not only a marvel of dramaticconstruction—equal
dew the best novels of an earlier
imbued period—but
as a truthful
with the moat
e4ctilation of English life,
Zhtohlesorne spirit, may well be regarded by its author
~ i more enduring complacency than ~ Pelham," or
t, Clifford," or " Ernest Maltraverhse."lti
on
approving congratulation that he
a merely aesthetic
Znllll3letely outlived the false worship shoulds ahmavnettseor
tli-114aent, the heathen deification of beauty athned ißnyterlolueci -0
se,„4:P°'wer; that he should have renounced
as that affecta-
c"reetitalistn of his younger days, as well
so thought-
4/31°1' p.olite levity which never sat well upon
of
is very significant .
Voi % balad. We are therefore glad to accept these two
41811144 of " Caxtoniana," whose title .
tlf,,d,,,el,iberate adoption of a moral purpose in his
oa.uthAormshainp
-Lae Cantons" more than a dozen years ago.
and
Who has lived so long in the betst
ofc
wriio J
laho„
bvidiwecoa
Vicar
would
h he is
'red so industriously in the
'Oft'l4latee, may surely pretend to give usar somethin 411' attention in his final essays on life,
bittoaere. They
qualities
something
literature, worthy
and
ktiehe., _ 0 are not loose.Rounedrahbaopus,t papers,
ialu ben highly
of ~, 4 e.repositions, superior,
.p
't PresBl°ll and style to anything he had written before.
.......,..4Z LATE MR. THACKERAY AND THE l
Whig,
4-374% Edmund Yates, writing to the Belfast fast
commencing
thissw—"'it.`lou will not be surprised at my again
Thackeray, for so
great week
with au allusion to the late Mr. clay%) a 1441 tarnishes topic for more i
conversation
bagkitte4tl.4l4,lite and death are still subject
to
---. It thans
of
fhe usual nine
411 him L. Would seem that there
.h
"I the Temple, of which ewwassssao some
member,proposition
an
iamid
The Which Those bricky towerse backd to ride,
Where °ll Thames' broad a
\Vh 11°,w the student theirlawyersghaKvenig
Tin etrbe v74llona Wont the Templar here onLicY decayed through pride. ht s bowers,
to
d efield,'
h4,,E, been - -arnith is buried, and Thackerayo'
l'i'ak tltlY laid near those of the author sf
the ashes'
upon
Whose brilliant genius he so heartily eulogised,
4lall-,1711°8e Many shortcomings he so tenderly touched
f
ter consulta-
li "" ' Lectures on the Humourists.'
(lest. With his own people in gensal-green.
l' on
With
his family, it was deemed beStthert,tehpatenhdeinsghotuhlids
e2kiott the sanction of the benchers of the Temple to inht,,e,ren-
'tent within the Precincts of the Temple Church had
alltecl and cheerfully accorded, and when the liensal-egrerere:
epiellieteeY was finally decided upon the benchets were
their
-h-,,eBte'l, tO perroit the erection of a memorial slab
1-, re°•• Their reply to this was that not only shoulnd they
-"e honours it
by such a memento, but that, if allowed, they
Would have it erected at their own cost." et tad RIB Liam !---1t has been said that the will
iii.wiadarne de Lamartine is informal, and consequently
_that.s
itWig Peet will lose the property bequeathed to him by his
t,f?l'. We hear that an appeal is to be made from the legal
,st°ll 'which has declared the nullity of the will, and it
14,"Ped that equity will be lenient, although the strict
'ter of the law is adverse to M. de Lamartine's claim.
b ft" ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS, Monseigneur
arb im
defend:'c:- has published a most sensible and logical letter
g the temporal power of thePopo.—Court Journal
ACL IcAL OPERA OF THE LAST CENTURY.-
1, P4lgellia in Aulis "by Gluck—after having been long
:ir;el:ene.tse.dA, :sBill be reproduced at the theatre of the Court of
,„,,,T 4t bANISII GOVERNMENT has called out 14,000
-4 of
the army reserve for immediate service.
fa
& . etaIIARESPERE CPIOIR,---IVIr. G.:W. Martin is
o‘.l;iabblg a choir of 1,000 picked voices for the purpose ofd
ether a grand performance of the Macbeth Music and
Pero compositions connected with the writings of Shake•
WeaP4etir° °LI the 23d of April next, the 300th anniversary of
ere's birth. Any lady or gentleman wishing to
te:Ll'art la the Festival may obtain a form of applica.-
-,„ " by
forwardingfor a stamped addressed envelope to 14-k,
4,4•7l:eter
Mr. Martin is also arranging for a perform-
isr race
of "e of }rubies oratorios in aid of the funds of the
411°)ani Shakespere,

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