The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-22 00:00:00

IN FUN, THIS WEEK, One Penny, Charles
Du Cane, M.P.—Eng:and on Chinese Plates—Wander-
ings in London, dtc.

it SATURDAY NIGHT JOURNAL."
Every Week. One Penny.
Forensic Reminiscences.
The Thames Embankment and its Approaches.
America and the Giants; Aro. &c.
80, Feet-street.

GRAND FLOWER SHOW, TO-MORROW.-
The Offices at the CRYSTAL PALACE and at
EXETER HALL will be kept open for the sale of FIVE
SHILLING DAY ADMISSION TICKETS, and the
GUINEA SEASON TICKETS (which admit free To-mor-
row) up to Nine o'clock This Evening.
By Order. GEORGE GROVE, Secretary.
Crystal Palace, May 22, 18E3.

fiIIiEATRE-ROYAL, HAY MARKET.
Lessee Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING, BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pa-
mela, Miss Maria Harris.
After which, 6th time, a new and nrlginal comedy. entitled
FINESSE; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr.
Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and
Miss Louisa Ange'.
Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a
Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East.
To conclude with MRS. WHITE.
Commence at 7.

THE PUKE'S MOTTO.
THE HUNDREDTH AND SEVENTH NIGHT.
On Whit Monday, and during- the Summer Season, the
doors will open at 7 o'clock ; performance commence at half-
past 7,

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Remade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and PrAogue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G Jordan, Brougham,
H. Widdisombe, P. Charles, Garden, Ralimond, Dawson;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, . Lavenuc, and
Elaworthy.
Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

NEW TI~EATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, a petite Drama, THE ANGEL OR
DEVIL. Miss A. Jones, Hr. Toole, and Mr. Billington.
. . .

After which (9th time), a new Drama, in one act, entitled
THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. Webster,
Stuart, Stephenson, Seft.n ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. 8.1-

lingtoti,

Followed by a new Burlesque, ent'iled ILL-TREATED
IL TROVATORE. MF ssrs. Toole. P. Bedtord, R Phillips,
Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
sar 1, and Miss K. Kelly.
To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. 3. L.
Toole, &c.

Commence at 7.

THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
Containing the Latest SPORTING LNTELLIGENCE,
can be had Every Evening ot
G. It. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

The Weather—Sun Office, May 22, 1863.

THERMOMETER.

This morning
This day at Two o'clock

Barometer-30.05.
Wind—N.E. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
MIS DAY.—Morning, 411. 51m.—Afternoon; 511. 6m,
To-uoits.ow.-Morning, 512. 25m.—Afternoon, 511. 45m

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1863.

Although the news brought from America by
the Glasgow is but a single day later than that
which came to hand on Saturday last, immedi-
ately on the arrival of the Persia that one
additional day's intelligence will be found, upon
examination, to be of very considerable import-
ance. And it is so, for the very simple reason,
that it fully confirms the first hurried announce-
ment, brought over by the Persia, descriptive of
the utter defeat, rout, and all but annihilation, of
General SEDGWICK'S division at Fredericksburg.
A mere remnant of that division, it now turns out,
having contrived to effect its escape from the Confede-
rates by rapidly crossing the Rappahannock! Even
then, when the flying remnant of that more than
decimated division had succeeded in putting the
long-named river between them and their Southern
pursuers, the dilemma in which SEDGWICK'S men
found themselves must have tended in no very
material way to hearten them on in regard to their
future proceedings. For how, in fact, were they
situated when they had thus (nominally speaking)
escaped ? They were so situated that they were in
reality more than ever in a perillous state of isola-
tion. They were, in the strictest meaning of the
phrase, on the wrong side of the hedge, when they
had recrossed to that, certainly for them, wrong
aide of the Rappahannock. So conscious was
Goneral SEDGWICK of the fact of their being
so, of their/ being in this most untoward predi-
cament, that immediately after crossing he directed
his steps forthwith along the northern bank in the
direction of the United States Ford, as it is called,
in order, as speedily as possible, to recross the river
at that point, if he should happily for him find it in
any way practicable—so as to reach once more the
head-quarters of General HOOKER, the Federal
Commander-in-Chief.
As to that same unfortunate Commander-in-Chief
of the Northern Army, he appears, by this one day's
later intelligence, to have been in as sorry a plight
as well could be—short of his total discomfiture.
As the sequel to his disastrous struggle with
the Confederates, on the morning of Sunday, the
3d instant, he now turns out to have wisely availed
himself of the excuse furnished by the bad weather
for not renewing the battle with his antagonists.
With his lines contracted—hard lines truly for him!
lines certainly not cast just now in pleasant places i
--HOOKER had, until the moment of these last
advices leaving the seat of war, persistently and
prudently remained strictly upon the defensive.
Satisfied with having stunned the Federal Common-
der-in. Chief into this complete and profound state
of quiescence, the attention of the Confederate Com-
mander-in-Chief, General LEP, and of his Generals
of Division, foremost amongst- them the redoubt-
able 0 STONEWALL" JACKSON, seems to have been
directed to the more complete crushing out, from
all further hope, of General SEDGWICK'S ill-starred
division. So serious was the position of things even
in the estimation of the obtuse and dawdling Exe-
cutive of Washington, headed by that greatest
Failure of the Age, President ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
that the latter and his coadjutors, in carrying on
the Federal Government, really at length would
. appear to have been startled into something like
an energetic course. It is a course
which,
supuosing the flying rumours as to its having
been
taken, to be correct—is a rather precipitate course
at best, a course indicative very nearly of a sense of
absolute desperation! The accuracy of the rumour,
however, yet romains to be demonstrated—this ex-
traordinary rumour now brought over, as it were
breathlessly, across the Atlantic by the Glasgow,
to the effect that the reserve set aside for
th. zirotection of the capital, a reserve of
30,000 000) had been hastily despatched from
Washington, to the support of General HOOKER
and his lieutenants. Should this prove to have
been actually doge—should it turn out that these
30,000 men of the reserve have really been despatched
thus summarily to the assistance of General
HOOKER—President LINCOLN may then be said
to have fairly staked all upon a single cast of the
die, to have risked his whole available resources upon
the salvation, at the last gasp (the mere rumour of
this act would seem to say this), of the Army
of the Potomac! Supposing the course here
-particularised, we repeat, to ,have been taken,
it must be allowed certainly to be a bold course