The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

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NEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-
Soin Proprietor and Menne-Gr. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
3 ti rling.
At 8, the New Drama of LEAH MSS Bateman, supported
by 3lessrs.Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, 13illington, Stuart,
A Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

MISS BATEMAN.—LEAI-I.—The celebrated
young American Actress, Miss BATEMAN, having.
zn her first appearance in the New Drama of LEA 11 ob-
tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has
been wi'nessed any years, and the profound impression
created by her fore=imponation of the character ot LEAH upon
a crowded audience hsvinv. been completely ratified by the
nnanimous verdict and critical approval ot the entire Daily
Press, the Manager of the NEW ADELPIII THEATRE has
the honour that 11I,ss BAT EMAN wilt a
in the New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING till fuprriTiaerr
notice.

OYAL STRAND THEATRE,
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
EVENIgG, TURN II DI OE I% Mr. C. Fenton.
After MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey,
....arsewhich,
, EeltOrd, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders.
Followed by THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs.
Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, 'Mesdames Ada Swan.
borough, F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny
White.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY, Morning, Ph. 53m.—Afternoon, 10h. 32m.
To-moallow.-Morning, 1111. 12m.—Afternoon, 11h. 40m.

The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 22, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock 6O

Barometer-30.20.
Wind—West; light, and fine.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 22, 1863.

The principal news just received from America
may be summed up in three announcements. An
important flank movement on MeeDE's right—
reported at New York on the 12th, as having been
effected by General LEE! An attack upon the
Federal fleet before Charleston, apparently by Con-
federate ironclads, causing considerable damage
among the vessels of that fleet rind great alarm
amongst them as to their safety ! The continued in-
terruption of all communication between ROSEN-
CB,ANZ'S base at Nashville and his main force at
Chattanooga! In three three announcements we
have the gist of all the tidings brought to us yester-
day and to-day by the Bohemian and the
Glasgow—the gist at least of those portions of the
tidings relating to the warlike operations at the
three chief points of interest, on the Tennessee, on
the Rapidan, and at Charleston. Simultaneously
with the receipt of these fragments of intelligence
we have vague intimations from the North, as to
certain mysterious plans for a pacification lately
submitted (with what result, if any, we are not in-
formed) to Mr. LINCOLN'S Cabinet. And from the
South a frank expression through the _Richmond
Enquirer, of the gratification of the Confederates at
having the French for neighbours in Mexico, the
Confederate journal remarking that "the South
would willingly make an alliance with France to
protect French and Southern interests in America."
The Richmond Examiner, at the same
time, denouncing all peace propositions, as
'llea hints not for one moment to be seriously
thought of ! in effect, it has been manifest here
on the European side of the Atlantic ever since the
successful accomplishment of NAPOLEON'S enter-
prise for the occupation of Mexico—it has been
perfectly manifest to every unprejudiced observer
of events as seen
from this side of the Atlantic,
that the One
inevitable sequel to that successful
occupation of
Meoiby French troops, woald ne-
cessarily be the' b
in intimate gin
later, g together, sooner or
alliance, offensive and de-
fensive—of the French
Tee proclivities of Franca,
the Confederates.
have been to the South. m
ill
is one
the first,
If there
European personage who is regarded by the North
it is the
t
with especial repugnance and indignation,
T
French EMPEROR. His MAJES
y
bat ill considered and utterly futilewogenerous
attempts to
bring about a reconciliation between the heilig
e.
rents have estranged the feelings of one portion, at
least, of these belligerents against him and his
vernment, more and more earnestly than
eve-
r.
This estrangement, this antagonism, it should be
celled, has been completed, has been perfected, 80 to
speak, by the knowledge, all but unendurable to the
North, that Mexico—that Mexico so often coveted
by American Republicans—has fallen completely
into the possession of the Emperor cf the FRENCH.
So completely that his MAJESTY can coolly offer, as
he has offered, the conquered republic to the Austrian
Archduke MAXI3IILIAN for transformetion into a new
Empire. Later on, the result is sufficiently obvious
of its kind. France must fall on the one hand into
more direct antagonism with the Federals, and into
mere intimate and cordial alliance on the other
hand, with the Confederates. Triumphing over
their antagonists, even when unaided from without,
the Southern veterans would infallibly be heartened
on to
Yet more doughty feats of arms by a con,.
sciousneas that there was already avowed sympathy,
end that there might be eventually, if such should be
deemed
on the ipartany w
thYadvisable, actual co-operation
bours, therein
Meex vicrench troop 3, as near neigh-
o
of the troops, of the Confe-
derates. Meanwhile
heremaybe Eeryisti.d
land the popular
the one hand b Earl Russl,
feeling, whatever
to the contrary on
y
:re
L
ling here in
by Mr. BEECI/ER, the popaia:";l on the other
England is every day becoming
unmistakably Southern or Confeder
.0 and more
ate. A packed
audience in Exeter-hall,• a bee
-y of
People (no
th
matter how large and noisy) got toga '
er there
for a set purpose, to listen open-mouthed to the
rhetorical ravings of a man of such exceedingly
bad taste and vile passions as the Rev. WARD

BEEc,jER, and to applaud ilial to the echo, CUL be

accepted in no way as evidence of what in reality