The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

was made for the transports to return
over the bar into the Gulf. On their way out four
of the transports and the gunboat Arizona grounded
on the bar. Fortunately for them the Arizona
grounded above the transports, broadside on, thus
presenting to the Confederate gunboats, four of
which were in the lake, the appearance of being
purposely in position to cover the retreat of the
transports. The following morning she got under
way, and the whole fleet, excepting the lost Clifton
and Sachem, left Sabine Pass. On their way
through the Gulf the steamboat Laurel Hill was
disabled and was towed to this city by the General
Banks. Part of the transports carried their men
to Btashear city, and the rest came back to New
Orleans.

General Gilmore has issued the following general

order: --

"Department of the South,
Head-quarters in the field, Morris Island, S.C.,
September 15.

"It is with no ordinary feeling of gratification
and pride that the Brigadier-General commanding
is enabled to congratulate this army upon the signal
success which has crowned the enterprise in which
it has been engaged. Fort Sumter is destroyed.
The scene where our country's flag suffered its first
dishonour you have made the theatre of one of its
proudest triumphs.
" The fort has been in possession of the enemy for
more than two years—has been his pride and boast
—has been strengthened by every appliance known
to military science, and has defied the assaults of
the most powerful and gallant fleet the world ever
saw. Bat it has yielded to our courage and patient
labour. Its walls are now crumbled to ruins, its
formidable batteries are silenced, and, though a
though a hostile flag still floats over it, the fort is a
harmless and helpless wreck. _ _

Forts Wagner and Gregg, works rendered me-
morable by their protracted resistance and the sac-
rifice of life they haVe cost, have also been wrested
from the enemy by your persevering courage and
skill, and the graves of your fallen comrades rescued
from contumely, You now hold in undisputed
possession the whole of Morris Island, and the city
and harbour of Charleston lie at the mercy of your
artillery, from the very spot where the first shot
was fired at your country's flag, and the rebellion
itself was inaugurated.
"To you, the officers and soldiers of this com-
mand, and to the gallant navy which has co-operated
with you, are due the thanks of your commander and
your country. You were called upen to encounter un-
told privation and dangers, to undergo unremitting
and exhausting labours, to sustain severe and dis-
heartening reverses. How nobly your patriotism and
zeal have responded to the call the result of the
campaign will show, and your commanding gene-
ral gratefully boars witness.

" Q. A. GILMORE,
Brigadier• General, Commanding."

Celebrities of the American War—
Photographed.

We have before us, in a single portrazt•carte, says
a writer in the Spectator, 52 photographic heads of

modern American generals and civilians, some
Northern some Southern, with Washington's, calm
old-fashioned face looking gravely out of the 18th
century at us in the centre. Here, within the space
of an ordinary carte, are congregated the head that
have brewed this storm, so that, sitting quietly at

home, we can pierce at 62 distinct points the white
mist of words and names which hangs over that
American chaos, It is often exceedingly question-
able whether the mere vision of a public man's face,

not previously or otherwise known to us, is likely
to add to our positive knowledge of him, or rather
to give us a false impression about him. Here, for
example, is a photograph of a three-quarter face,
contemplative, serene, Shakesperian, with the
collars turned back, with moustache but no
beard, exceedingly like the better likenesses of
Shakespeare in its upper portion, showing a placid
brow and heavy brooding eyelids, only a thinner
and, perhaps, ungenial month. To which of the
American Generals do our readers suppose that it
belongs? To General Lee or General I\l'Clellan ?
No ; but to General Butler. Here is a civilian face
—solemn, didactic, important, still young, but
going in for "judiciousness," the kind of face which
one is accustomed to see in men who deprecate in-
discreet theories, and school those still younger,
telling them that they will learn by sad experience
to take wiser views in time. Do our readers sup-

pose it must be Mr. Chase or Mr. Memminger, big
with financial caution ? No ; but Mr. James Gor-
don Bennett, the editor of the most discreditable
paper in the world, and who is commonly said to
have compensated himself once for a severe chas-
tisement by telegraphing to his own journal a frank
" sensation" heading as to the stripes he had
received, which sold the edition. Then there
is an amiable, weak, confused, woolly-headed look-
ing military bust, with fat cheeks and head narrow-
ing towards the top, eminently a " worthy" young
officer not likely to distinguish himself. It is
" Stonewall" Jackson. Here, again, is a grave,
square, open countenance, speaking a frank heart,
an earnest devotion to freedom, and the compressed
resolve to maintain it at the sacrifice of life. This,
surely, must belong to a Northerner of the squarest
Republican type. It is the face of John C. Breck-
inridge, the last Southern candidate for the Presi-
dency. Certainly, in none of these cases does the
picture of the countenance and bearing suggest any
addition of value to one's knowledge, though it may
perhaps break the chain of former associations. On
the other hand, there are some heads, generally
either the most powerful or the reverse, which it
is a permanent satisfaction to have identified in
one's mind with the career which has expressed
it. Here is the bead of Mr. Jefferson Davis, with
an imperial eye that seems to see the future and
control it, and a mouth strong, thin, com-
pressed, half-ascetic, like Father Newman's, speak-
ing of vast power of self-denial for distant ends,
but with a shadow of cynicism and intrigue just
hanging about it, that tells a nature not incapable
of breaking faith. Here is Mr. Lincoln, honest
shove all things, not keen, but shrewd, logical as a
Scot, anxious as a Yankee, with a sad humour, and
a strong touch of coarseness,—not a fine face, not
a face at its ease, but trustworthy in the highest
degree, and, for the rest, something between a
farmer's and an artizan's (too shrewd for the one,
too safe for the other) after he has cleaned himself on
Sunday morning. Again there is a satisfaction in
connecting this clear-eyed courtly Vandyck-face
with General Lee ; this very industrious, painstak-
ing face which suddenly falls away to
nothing, with the Confederate General John-
stone who has always been going to relieve
every place of importance and has never
relieved any; in learning that this sweet and poe-
tical profile belongs to the Federal Lieut. Mulligan,
whose noble defence of Lexington, in Missouri,
against overwhelming Southern forces, was one of
the-greatest exploits of the war; in knowing that
refined and manly head to be Governor Spiague's,
of Rhode Island, who fitted out a regiment at the
commencement of the war at his own sole expense.
Mr. Slidell and Mr. Mason, too, look quite as dis-
agreeable as one could wish. Mr. Slidell is the
ideal of a man who would think it a privilege to get
into a scrape himself if be could only iuvoive his
host and patron too; Mr, Mason, more of the bull-
dog, ready to fasten on friends and foes alike. Tne
most peculiar intellectual satisfaction, however,
arises from knowing that this would-be strong,
essentially weak, conceited, face run to seed, with
hair a little bristled and the whole attitude breath-
ing " Our War Correspondent, Mr. Jefferson
Brick" as an adult, belongs to Mr. Secretary Seward

LORD LYNDHURST.—We are sorry to learn that
Lord Lyndhurst, who arrived at his house in George-street
from Tunbridga-wells, in the early part of the week, has,
since his arrival, been in a weak state of health, but at pre-
sent no danger is apprehended.
" GOD BLESS THE PRINCE OF WALES" has now
taken the position of a national song. It was sung
recently by 5,000 children at the Crystal Palace. But Mr.
Sims Reeves' energetic delivery has been alone worth ail
the choruses in making the song popular, and touching the
loyal and sympathetic teeing of the people. Mr. Sims
Reeves has had a royalty of sixpence on each song sold,
besides the handsome bonus of £lOO from Messrs. Cocks,
the ?üblishers of the song.

SIR JAMSETJEE JEEJEEBIIOY, Bart., has handed
to Government the sum of 100,00'1 rupees (410;000), for
building a new college at Fooaa.