The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1863,

It will be with nothing less than profound and, cer-
tainly with most unaffected grief that almost every-
one who glances down our telegrams this after-
noon, will learn from them the tidings of the death
of General STONEWALL JACKSON. Among the few
great men evoked from this lamentable war in
America, he was about the very first and fore-
most. Beyond any doubt of it, he made one of
the Triumvirate of Great Men called to view by
the war—every one of the three being among the
chiefs of the Confederates. President JEFFERSON
DAVIS occupying the post of honour. General LEE
as Commandevin-Chief—coming next. General
STONEWALL JACKSON occupying the next rank,
coming third upon the list, merely oat of regard to
the official order of precedence. Otherwise, view-
ing the General of Division solely in reference to
his individual evidences of greatness of character,
JACKSON stood quite upon a level with LEE
and DAVIS, his political and military chieftains,
Assuredly, the South, if it could hardly, in
HAMLET'S phrase, have "better spared a better
man"—and, according to popular belief in reference
to the dead Hero, it could scarcely have done
that, STONEWALL JACKSON enjoying a reputation
for excellence quite upon a par with his reputation
for heroism and good generalship—the cause of the
Confederates could have spared almost any one better
than the very man snatched away from them by their
last calamitous victory, General JACKSON'S death,
in point of fact, is equivalent to the loss of a whole
division. It nearly turns the recent triumphs of
the Confederates into a disadvantage. It certainly
follows up those recent successes with a disaster that
almost counterbalances the events of which they
are the untoward sequel. The most enterprising
of the Lieutenants of LEE is thus lost to the
Confederate Commander-in-Chief, at the very mo-
ment when his co-operation would have proved, in-
evitably, of the greatest service. The demise of
JACKSON appears to have been the result of the
amputation rendered necessary by the severe wound
in his left arm. Within a brief interval after that
shattered limb had been removed, under the
skilled hands of the surgical operator, the Great
Captain had breathed his last. Aware before-
hand of this lamentable occurrence, one looks back
now with a pang to the immediately preceding
telegram to the effect that " General LEE claims a
glorious victory, and laments the temporary absence
of one to whose bravery they are so much indebted
for their success." Hardly has the magnetic needle
clicked that message from New York, on the thir-
teenth instant, to the homeward-bound Europa,
then upon the eve of her departure from Halifax,
when towards nightfall on that same date comes the-
intimation that the absence is no longer temporary
but permanent. " General LEE," says the telegram
with eloquent brevity, "officially announces with
great grief the death of General STONEWALL JACK-
SON." That death is the worst calamity that has
yet befallen the Confederates.
Turning, from the victorious but sorrowing
Southerner s, to the North, the salient points of the
news now coming to us through the agency of the
Europa, may be here rapidly epitomised. General
HALLECK is reported to be about to take the field

in person to supe, intend General HOOKER'S opera-
tions in the next campaign ! It is, for all the
world, like DIGGORY, in GOLDSMITH'S comedy,

helping his fellow servant to do—Nothing. For

the very first telegram flashed from
New
York
to Halifax, the next morning, runs to the
effect that
General HOOKER has not made a forward move-
rk
move-
ment, for the simple reason that, though himself
desirous of doing so, the plan for an advance had
been disapproved by General HALL EEK ! Mean-
while the indications of a projected advance move-
ment on the part of General LEE, seem to be
quite unmistakeable. The Southern commander,
when the last accounts left, evidently purposedck-
crossing the river, almost immediately, and attack.
ing General HOOKER. Elsewhere among the tele-
grams will be found the last Order of the Day ad-
dressed to his troops by the latter—one of the most
flagitious and mendacious documents that com-
manding officer ever had the hardihood to address
to his defeated troops, and the still greater hardi-
hood afterwards. in cold blood deliberately to
publish to the world. Reading it—one might

almost suppose that General HOOKER had been

recently winning some astounding aeries of vi©-

The care of the public health is a task of no slight
degree of responsibility and anxiety. The ignorance
and indifference of the great body of the people are
formidable obstacles in the way of sanitary reform ;
and until we adopt the continental system of strict
surveillance, and carry it considerably further than
has ever been done, we cannot ensure due attention
to the laws of health and cleanliness. A. degree of
indifference, too, is apt to spring up in the official
mind with the monotonous routine of their duties ;
and, generally speaking, all parties are content to
go on quietly in the.old way without troubling them-
selves too much about sweeping reforms. Several
circumstances, however, have of late combined to
direct a little more attention to this subject. The
coronership of Middlesex is held by a very able and
efficient man, who is apparently resolved that his
new office shall be no sinecure. Dr. LANKESTER
was already well known to the general public before
ha was elected coroner, by his clear exposition of
some of the main principles of health in his lectures
at the South Kensington Museum, and by other
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