The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-16 00:00:00

r-TEAT RE-ROY AL, HAY MARIIET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pa-
mela, Miss Maria Harris.
After which, first time, a new and original comedy, entitled
FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr.
Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and
Miss Louisa Angel.
Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducinc, a
Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of W ales in the East.'
To conclude with MRS. WHITE.
Commence at-7.

TDUKE'S MOTTO,
THE HUNDREDTH AND SECOND NIGHT.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER.

THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Orizinal
sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Mass Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.

After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pri'Logue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Broug am,
H. iombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and
Elsworthy.

Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

NEW TE EATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the Second and Third Acts of THE
GREEN BU' HES. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, Bil-
lington, and Miss Avonia Jones.
After which (4th time), a new Drama, In one act, entitled
THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. Webster,
Stuart, Stephenson, Seft.n ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. BA-
lington.
To conclude with ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J.
L. Toole, &c.

Commence at 7.

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The Weather—Sun Office, May 16, 1863,

THERMOMETER.

This morning
This day at Two o'clock
Barometer-29.71.
Wind—S.W. , • light breeze, with showers.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, 12h. 59m.—Afternoon, lh. 25m.
To-monnow.-Morning, lh. 43m.—Afternoon, 2h. Bm.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1863.

U STONEWALL" JACKSON, if not quite realising the
Yankee dream, in the U-nited State's regard, of
whipping all creation, has again most unmistakably
defeated and even routed yet once more those un-
happy Federals. The Third Bull's Run—for the
incident now related is really but little else—has
this time to be branded on the North American map
at a point close to Chancellorsville. There the
great Confederate Roundhead and his Ironsides
on Saturday, the second of May, it appears,
made a vigorous attack upon the Federal
Right Wing, breaking up effectually at the first
rush General SCHITRZ'S division of German auxi-
liaries—driving them back at the point of the sword
and bayonet—turning their retreat into an utter
rout at last, until the very arms of the Teutonic
mercenaries were thrown away as incum-
brances to them in their flight—until, in point
of fact, the whole division was swept before its
conquerors in another genuine and unmistakable
skedaddle. Not only, however, was it Gene-
ral Soettlaz's division that fled in complete
rout- before General " STONEWALL" JACKSON
and his Confederates upon the morning of the 2d of
May, immediately upon this dashing descent upon
the right wing of the Federals, near Chan-
cellorsville. The contagion of Federal cowar-
dice spread not only from regiment to
regiment, but from division to division—the
division of General DEVEN also breaking
under the shock of battle, flinging down their arms
and running like hares, before the victorious Confe-
derates. " Two brigades," we read, "of General
HOWARD'S division alone retired in order, to
the support of whom General HOOKER sent his
own division commanded by General BERRY."
The next sentence of the telegram adding, " the
united and desperate exertions of these troops,
after a most sanguinary struggle, succeeded in
checking the Confederate advance, and pre-
vented General JACKSON from completing his
victory." This i 3 the news brought to us by the
Persia, via New York, with advices from that city
down to the sth inst. And the wording of the last
sentence, precisely as it comes to us from this
source of information, we cannot but think
has about it an especial significance. It was
only, observe, by their united and desperate
exertions, that after a most sanguinary struggle
the Federals succeeded in checking the advance
of the Confederates, and thus, only did they
prevent General JACKSON, the redoubtable and
still irresistible " STONEWALL" JACKSON, from com-
pleting his Victory ! So that from the months of the
Federals themselves we obtain the acknowledg-
ment that it was a Victory. All this, remember,
occurring on the Saturday. Daybreak, how-
ever, upon the following morning, that is
upon the Sunday morning, 3d May, brought the tug
of war, For then it was that the opposing forces
appear to have recommenced the struggle
in veritable earnest. The contest lasted
for fully three hours and a half—with
what result it is rapidly becoming almost
unnecessary to answer—the Federals falling hack
.—the Confederates pursuing ! Four hours longer
the fight then seems to have been persisted in
with a sort of wild and vague desperation. What
it is, that is precisely meant by the announcement
of the result of this seven and a half hours
hard fighting must remain until further
particulars can be received in explanation
of the enigmatic sentence, matter of dim and
bewildering conjecture. The Federals having
(after the first three hours and a half of
the Sunday morning battle) fallen back, with
the enetny, that is the Confederates, in
close Iseeielit_fi
ghting having, as we have
said, continued even then for four hours longer
—it reads rather bewildering that, then," the Fede-
rals having succeeded in
getting the Confederates in
their front, the conflict was sn,spended." In their
front ?—they can hardly
all those four hours
have been fighting dos-5. dos ! y having
retreated before the advance of the Federals' a
end of the first three hours and a half fighting,t
and
e
having all those next four hours continued the Con.
filet, in order to fight for those four hours longer,
the Federals must therefore have turned at bay
consequently with the Confederates, sword in
hand, "before theta" alt the while. We
nre so accustomed to exaggeration in re-
spect to the frightful bloodshed inoidental
to these American battles that we read almost
calmly—because of our hope that here again the
statement may prove to 113, as usual, an exaggera-
tion—we read, because of this arriere penile of tope
that " the carnage on both sides is described
as being awful"—the precise numbers of their
killed and wounded not being (also as usual) any-
where mentioned in these first telegrams. Ali
kinds of sinister rumours we heaorr, k
more-
Y and
over, were afloat both at New
at Washington -- rumours not unnaturally
all the more sinister of their kind, because of the
suspicious reticence in regard to the actual facts as
they were known to the superior authorities at
the Capitol, the reticence singularly and
glar-
ingly ominous of disaster manifested at this
juncture by the Federal Government. General
ooxiza's entire force, it was even beginning to be