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(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.Y
QUEENSTOWN; NOY. 22.
The royal mail steamship Canada, from Boston
on the 11th, and Halifax on the 13th, arrived here
at nine a.m. to-day, with 120 passengers and
77,300 dols. in specie.
She landed five passengers, and all her wilt;
consisting of 98 sacks, and proceeded at 9,30, All
well.

The Canada experienced severe easterly weather
throughout her passage.
The Canada brings no later news via Halifax,
telegraphic communication between that place
and New York having been interrupted.

NEW YOtE., Nov. 10 (Afternoon).
General Lee has retreated beyond the Rapidan.
General Meade is still pressing forward ; his army
has reached Culpepper Court-house.
General Buford's cavalry has occupied Culpepper.
The object of General Meade's movement is to
divert the Confederates from operating against
General Burnside. The latter is reported to have
been superseded by General Foster.
Rumours are current that General Burnside has
met with a disaster.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (Evening).
A body of 9,000 Confederates is on its march
to attack General Blunt, who is proceeding with
1,800 cavalry and an immense supply train to Fort
Smith, Arkansas.
. _

Gen. Meade's movement to the Rappahannock
completely surprised the Confederates. Nearly all
their force on the north s;de of the river was cap-
tured. .

The Southern journals anticipate an early en-
gagement in Chattanooga. They consider Grant's
late movements in Lookout Valley have counter.
acted the advantage Bragg gained at Chickamauga,
and may enable Grant to winter in Chattanooga.
A portion of Federal General Sherman's forces
is reported to be advancing from Tuscalouse on
Selina, Alabama.
The Confederates who are operating against
Burnside have occupied London, Tennessee, 23 miles
from Knoxville. It is rumoured that an engage-
ment has taken place between this force and Burn-
side, resulting unfavourably to the latter.

The Confederates have been defeated in two en-
gagements in Western Virginia.
Gen. Banks' expedition, consisting of 17 trans-
ports and three war vessels, left Now Orleans on
the 27th ult., it is supposed for Sabine Pass.
President Jeff. Davis made a speech at Charles-
ton. He believed Charleston never would be taken.
But if captured, he desired the city should be a mass
of ruins. If Charleston was beleaguered on every
side, reinforcements would be sent in proportion to
the strength.
It is semi-officially announced that Mr. Seward
has received information that the French Govern-
ment has stopped the building of Confederate iron-
clads in French ports.

Mechanics and other large bodies of working men
in New York and in Boston have struck for higher
wages, stopping the construction of Government
vessels, and injuring other branches of trade.
The steamer Panama. from Mexico, has arrived
at New York to coal. She has Marshal Forey on
board, who has gone incognito to visit the Falls of
the Niagara.

Southern journals assert that the prisoners at
Richmond receive proper food.
The steamer Mail has been captured, and has
arrived at Key West.
The schooners Herald, Martha, and Jane have
been captured.
Richmond papers of the 6th contain the follow-
ing telegram::—
ATLANTA, Nov. 4.

The Yankees maintain possession of Racoon Val-
ley, having been heavily reinfore:d. They shell
our forces incessantly. The Yankee advance hes
reached Florence. We occupy Loudon, which
places us within 23 miles of Knoxville and behind
the defences of the enemy. The enemy are rioting
near Huntsville, committing great depredations.
Bragg can muzzle the telegraph, but he cannot
the mails. The enemy have gained important ad-
vantages within the last 48 hours, which, unless
they are counteracted, will place the question of
subsisting his army at Chattanooga beyond all
doubt. The commander at Rome has received a
telegram from Selma, Alabama, stating that
heavy force of Yankee mounted infantry had
reached Tuscaloosa en route for Selma. They
come from Tupelo by the same route that Bragg's
army came by last summer.
General Grant is said to have telegraphed to the
War Department that two of General Burnside's
advanced positions have been assailed and captured
by the Confederates, who made prisoners of parts
of two regiments that were holding possession at
the time.
The Richmond papers contain the following :-
1 Headquarters, Army of Northern
Virginia.
General S. Cooper,—ln advance of a detailed
report, I have the honour to submit, for theine of
fmthae-
tion of the department, the followi_tyitoh the designu,tii
n
recent operations of this army : I.•v
of bringing on
an engagement with the Federal
army, which encamped around Culpepper Court-
house, extending to the Rapidan, this army crossed
that river on the 9th inst., aud advanced by way of
Madison Court-house.
Our progress
was neces-
sarily slow, as the march was by circuitous and
d the observation
concealed roads, in crder to avoid
of the enemy.
the commands of Stuart and Lee
Near that place
united on the afternoon of the 11th, and after a
severe engagement drove the enemy's cavalry across
ek with severe loss. On the morn-
the Rappahanno
12th the army marched in two columns,
with
ing of the of
reaching
the Orange and Alex-
andriathe design
Railroad, north of the river, and interrupt_
treat of the enemy.
ing the re
General Fitz-Lee, with his cavalry division and
a detachment of infantry, remained to hold our lines
south of the Rapidan. General Stuart, with Ramp-
ton's
division, moved on the right of the column.
With a portion of his command he attacked the ad-
vance of the enemy near James city, on the 10th,
and drove them back towards Culpepper. ;Our main
body arrived near that place on the 11th inst., and
discovered that the enemy had retreated towards
the Rappahannock, ruining or destroying his stores.
We were compelled to halt during the rest of the
day to provision the troops, but the cavalry under
General Stuart continued to press the enemy's rear
guard to wards the Rappahannock. A large force of
Federal cavalry in the meantime had crossed the
Rapidan after our movements begun, but was
repulsed by G
enera
Fitz
Lee and pursued towards
Brandy Station.

After a skirmish with some of the Federal cavalry
at Jeffersontow
we reached the Rappahannock at
Warrenton 6prings in the afternoon, where
the passage of the river was disputed by
cavalry and artillery. The enemy was
quickly
driven off by a detachment of our cavalry,
aided by a small force of infantry and a bat-
tery. Early next morning (the 13th), the march
Wtis resumed, and the two columns reuni:cd at
Warrenton in the afternoon, when another halt wits
made to supply the troops with provisions. The
enemy fell back rapidly along the line of the rail-
road, and early ou the 14th the pursuit was con-
tinued, a portion of the army moving by way of
New Baltimore towards Bristol station, and the
rest, accompanied by the main body of the cavalry,
proceeded to the same point by Auburn Mills and
Greenwich. Near the former place a skirmish took
place between Gen. Ewell's advance and the rear-
guard of the enemy, which was forced back and
rapidly pursued. The retreat of the enemy wad eon-
ducted by several direct parallel roads, while
troops were coraPelltd to march tI. '4 .1. ~2 °l'r
'll-lcillt and

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station, where his advance, consisting 0 le_ s
gades, became engaged with a force iarg 17 But .
rior in numbers posted behind the railroad ermban k
ment. The particulars of the action have nOt bee, a
reported, but the brigades were repulsed wit h loss.,
and five pieces of artillery, with a number of yr],
soners, captured. Before the rest of the troops
could be brought up, and the position of the earl IIY
ascertained, he retreated across Broad Run. T. au
next morning he was reported to be fortifyin g
beyond Bull Run, extending his line towards tno
Little River Turnpike. The vicinity of the in-
trenehroents around Washington and Alexandri u,
rendered it useless to turn his new position, as it"
was apparent that he could readily retire to them,
and would decline an engagement unless attacked
in his fortifications. A farther advance was there-
fore deemed unnecessary, and after destroying the
railroad from Cub Run sauthwardly to the Rappa-
,hanneck, the army returned on the 18th to tiw line
leaving the cavalry in the ene..ny's
or that river,
as
ititienrg
occurred advanced tahteßfoulelko
iwa inT
from:.
day, and
rtic.cav:,l.mrye
Gen. Stuart, with Hiss ton's division, retired'.
slowly towards I.Va.Tr.enton, in order to draw the
ofsl.it!liremli
directiolly thus exPesing his flank
, fooved from Auburn and
eannedmryeairntothGletn. Lee, who
attacked him near Backlarna, As soon as Gen.
-ho a
Stuart heard the sound of Gc).'• Lee's guns, he
turned upon the enemy, I, I • a stubborn re-
sistance,aftc
e -
Gen. Stuart nearly to Iclaymerk ~ awl by Gen. Leo
broke and fled in confusio.9, pursued by
'
to Gainesville. Here the Federal infant TY was en-
countered, and after capturing a number of them.
r,9,1 before
during the night, the cavalry slowly retire'.!
their advance on the following day, when the move-
ment
of the army from the Bain 'clan commenced,
Gen. Imboden was instructed to advance down the
valley and guard the gaps of the mountains on o 7
left. This duty was well performed by that officer,.
and on the 18th he marched upon Charleston, ana
succeeded by a well concerted plan in sur-
rounding the place and capturing nearly the
whole force stationed there and all their stores and
transportation. Only a few escaped to Harper's
Ferry. The enemy advanced from that place it
superior numbers to attack General Imboden, who
retired, bringing off his prisoners and captured.
property, his command suffering very little loss,
and inflicting some damage on the pursuing column.
In the course of these operations 2,436 prisoners
were captured, including 41 commissioned officers.
Of the above number 434 were taken by General
Imboden. A more complete account, with state-
ments of our loss in killed, wounded, and Pri"
Boners, will be for warded as soon as the necessary
official reports have been received.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
H. E. LEE, General.
Official John Withers, A. A. General,
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (Evening).
Money continues tight. The stringency of tho
money market exercises a marked depressing influ-
ence upon stocks, which are again lower. New
York Centrals, 133; Illinois Shares, 1171; Erie,
102!; 6 per Cent. United States Bonds, 1081.
Gold, 451 per cent. premium, showing a decline of
1 Fer cent. since yesterday. Exchange on London
—Bankers' bills, 160. Cotton dull ; middling up-
land, 841 c.

THE OUTWARD AMERICAN MAILS.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 22.

The royal mail steam ship Scotia arrived here at
7 p.m. to-day, embarked mails, passengers, and the
latest telegrams, and prcceeded for New York. All
well.

RIOT AT GUILDFORD,

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The soldiers who have, in conseciance of the
threatened Guy Fawkes riots, been quartered at
Guildford for some time, returned on Thursday to
Aldershott. Late on Saturday night the " guys"
took advantage of their absence to come out.
Eighteen or 20 men, armed with bludgeons and
dressed as "guys," entered the town from the direc-
tion of Stoke's-fields, and, proceeding; along the
Stoke-road, broke the windows of Messrs. Impey
and Bower, two special constables, who had, it
seems, given their party some cause of offence.
Proceeding to the upper part of the town, they
turned round the corner of the Rain lon, and
alarmed the whole neighbourhood with their shouts.
They then broke the panels of the shutters and
shop windows of Mr. Wcale, linendraper, having
wrenched the shutters from their places, and broken
two large windows each valued at £7O. Nor did.
the upper windows share a better fate. The fram-
ing was broken, and other parts of the woodwork
shivered to pieces, and rot a single pane was left
whole. This was the work of only a few minutes.
Mr. Weale's son, who is the secretary of the 13th
Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps, ran in undress to the
door armed for the protection of himself and rela-
tives, should the "guys" attempt anything further
than mere destruction of property ; but, happily,
when he reached the door the 6, guys" had gone
in the direction of the house of Mr. Henry Piper,
of the 24th
ex-mayor, on the Merrow-road.
A
alarm had
been given, and the bell. of the Town hall was
loudly rung, when about 20members
Surrey Rifles and a number of the special con-
stables assembled. An explosion
some shouting being heard of fireworks and
i
Chapel-street (lower down then the direction of
ordered thither, but there were town) they were
de-
manding their services. At \ere found nothing
r. Piper's the " guys'
demanded money, I
promising
that if they received
a good round sum the
Mr. Piper refused toy would not injure the house.
give them money, on which
they threatened him. Ho told them that Mrs.
Piper was very ill,
andbegged
them to desist, but
this entreaty they utterly
disregarded, and at once
commenced the-
ir attack. They completely broke
in the front door. The upper and lower windows
were WIII 0
were also destroyed. The
" guys" then disbanded
for the bthrowing away their bludgeons, and
oven their dresses. Sw •
ordsticks and unexploded
fireworks the
were found yesterday morning in
streets. Mr. Weale's and Mr. Piper's premises
have since been boarded up. We are told that
three of the " guys" who aided in these disgraceful
Iproceedings are known, and that they will bo
brought before the magistrates. It is said that
large rewards aro to be offered for the detection.
and conviction of any of the other ringleaders.

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The Echo de 1 Oise gives the following as the
complete list of the second series of guests at Com..
pi4ne, some of whose names have been already
given :—" The Princess Anna Murat, Prince and
Princess de Metternich, the Marquis of Hertford,
the Duke de Ferdinanda, Madame Boudet, the
M.
the N I
MarquiseeAoeitira Inirm;;e:
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Madame Drouya
de Lhuys, Lord and Lady Dufferin, the Prince de
GC:race, Count de Reuss, Count and Countess do
C h a s s e 1 o u3pl-.LAaoubbearts,
ofC otuhnet
Institute;l." om aarn,d
General S gni:
senator;
and _Marquise de Lagrange,
General Mellinet, the Marquis
Rothschild, Count and
Gallifet, the Baronne do
evouasnstardt;
Gm.conneau,
jun., Madame Doutour,
t de la Poeze, Viscount
and Baronne Alphonse de °it; Baron
Countess de Faverney, Cow,
aiadnn i M . B. Alvares de
_ roiled°, M. D,?sva-
Aguado, Baron HitUSSIII '-1
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reCiro,:ss
M. Saavedra, Countess
°Y, M. Hida.l
Stephanie Taseher de la,
B a r oun uaen I'd
06103 a General
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e\ylrealulsh,ertht,eM. Duke.Vio l edte-
Leduc, go, M. Lean Cog-
Mouehy, Count
Vaughkm, M.
en, e lalleyrand-Pezigord, Miss
Madame
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aignand.,, Madame Areas, Captain and
MINERAL 1862,
recent,STATISTICS. OF GREAT 13RITAIN FOR
the School of l) ay Mr. Robert Hunt, of
5,209 oz.; silver, 686;123 oz. ,
cratianntitsy47o6f t gold extractel,2l
tons; coal, 81,638,338 tons • representing.. tune zip, 2.151
501.
£34,691,037. The quantity'of a total I
‘.I
coal sent to the znetropo,is
during
the past year was 5,00,000 tons, of which 3,500,000
tons were sea- borne.
A CURIoUS DISCOVERY has recently been made
ill California of a pyramid, similar in construction to the
Egyptian pyramids, only smaller. Tha stones average
six feet in length, and from one loot to three feet in thick-
ness,

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. Geo.
Honey, Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K. Saville, and Miss
Manners.
After which, MT NEW PLACE. Mr. A. Wood.
To conclude with PAINT HEART NE VER WON FAIR
LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray, Miss Button,
Commence at 7.

Tim THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
z,,,,9ontaininv, the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
ut had very Evening ot

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LONDON, MONDAY, No, --------.
23, 1863.

The diminution of Goneral LEE's
na'in arra
extent of the 30,000 inen, who were known to
to the
rat to hay,
been suddenly withdrawn from it, eb_ftrty
meant
according to the last despatches received several
days since from the American scat of war, that the
Confederate Chief was, in serious earnest, at it agitint
The intelligence now received confirms this instant
impression. It more than confirms the impression.
It explains, in regard to the latest movements of the
confronting main armies of the North and of the
South, everything that in any way can be said to
have needed explanation. The key to the whole
mystery, if mystery there was, in this withdrawal
from LEE'S army of no less than 30,000 of his
troops—thereby causing the main army of the
South to be temporarily outnumbered by their
confronting antagonists, the Northern main army
under I'llEADE—may be found in these new tid-
ings from America, tidings just brought to us by
the Canada, may be there rt cognised in fact at a
g lance by those who read running. General LEE has
again ;: bewildered lderellnd out witted his opponent.' Ats
u;
Stonewall" days, when that redoubtable
soldier at the bidding of his great Leader, General
ROBERT LEE, w:, suddenly disappear from
everyone's together with several thousands
of those southern veterans, who were ever ready
go whethersoever he listed—
as suddenly in thihs way as
dis3ppearing
though the ground had swallowed
though JAcKsoN end his army had t.na up—as
header and dived into the solid earth:o taken a
somewhere, probably where they Were
the lteurnt "
pected, certainly where they wc.-. the least welcome
-..precisely in the same startling manner
nom,
"thirty thousand" of LSE's troops have been spriten
away, no one knows for Some time for what parti.