The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-23 00:00:00

TttEATEE-1-“ a As., HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY
MORTAL.
After which, 31at time, a new and nriginal comedy, entitled
FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-4y : Mr. Bnckstone, Mr.
Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and
Mimi Louisa Attge !
Followed by (11th time), a new Farce, E A.SY SHAVING:
Messrs. Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers ;Mi Louise Keeley,
Miss Fanny Wright.
To conclude with THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA.
Commence at 7.

THE DUKE'S MOTT(
kIL Y.:MED A.ND THIRTY-FOURTH NIGHT.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
THIS EVENING, to commence with an Orkinal ;ketch,
entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden,
IL Widdicomb, Mss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee'

After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logne, 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. Brongnam,
8. Widdimmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, R. r..avenue, and
Elaworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past.

Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Sole Lassee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining.

THIS EVENING, the grand new Drama, entitled COURT
AND CAMP : Messrs. G. Vining, C. Verner, H. Marston,
r. Belmore, G. Murray, and Warde ; Miss Murray, Miss L.
Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
To be preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN
TOM.

And followed by A CHARMING PAIR. Mr. Roxby, Mrs
Ma. ston, and Miss Jones.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager. M 7.. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, THE IRI-H TIGER.
After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE
HAUNTED MAN ; JR, T E GHOST'S BARGAIN, in
which will be exhibited Professor Pei per's adaptat!on of
the Great spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phi lips,
Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss
H. Simms.

Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED
IL TRO VATORE. Ms sirs. Toole. P. Bedford, R Phillips,
Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters _Nelson, Carry and
Sari, and bliss K. Kelly.

Comment at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES.
Messrs. Parse!), Belford, Turner, Mesdames Button, Hughes,
and Thorne.
After which. the Great Burlesque, ALI BABA ; OR, THE
THIRTY-NINE THIEVES. Messrs. Honey, Turner,
Danvers, Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Saunders, White,
Button, and Hughes.
To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. Mr.
Honey and Miss Josephs.
Commence at 7.

THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN."
Containing the L.test SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
Can be had Every Evening of
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The Weather—Sun Office, June 23, 1863.

THERMOMETER.

This morninz
This day at Two o'clock 74
Barometer-30.11.

Wind—S.-W.; moderate, and very fine weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
tins DAY.—Morning, 6h. 20m.—Afternoon, 6h. 40m.
To-Koßßow.-Morning,' 7h. Om.—Afternoon, 7h. 25m.

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district to do his duty. If anything could have

been more absurd and uncalled for than
another in this painful affair, it was the
statement of the husband of Madame ELISE,
that " he did all he could for the comfort and health
of his young people." If all he and his wife can
do to promote these ends is to foster the system be-
fore commented on, they sooner they give up em-
ploying any one to work for them the better for
their own consciences and the welfare of all con-
nected with them. Yet the worst consideration of
all is that this state of things recorded is not a
solitary instance but a sample of many similar esta-
blishments. Madame ELISE now incurs the odium
through the chance of one girl being more delicate

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1863.

Important telegrams from the American seat of
war have, only very late this afternoon, reached our
hands, brought to our shores this morning per the

Jura. The accounts they convey, although dating
down no more than three days later than the last
received intelligence—tell strongly in favour of the
Southern forces both in the direction of the Rap-
pahannock and in that of the Mississippi. Every-
where the Federals appear to be suffering grievously.
In Indiana the enrollment could only be carried on
-under the assistance of the cavalry. On the Rap-
pahannock the situation is becoming so seriously

,han the others, or more unaccustomed, perhaps, to

threatening that while some of the New York papers
still affect to talk r. boat General HOOKER assuming
the offensive, it is certain that on the 13th a battle

work and close confinement. But there are many
other places where just the same practices rrevail,
and it is high time that such abuses should be pre.
vented by law. Too much has been left for too
long to the good feeling and consideration of all
concerned in the affair; it now remains to insist
that such tyranny comes under the penalty of the

was then raging on the banks of that river, between

&portion at least of the opposing armies: and already

before that renewal of hostilities had commenced,
it was matter of notoriety that the Confederates
had latterly been gathering together there a very
formidable array of reinforcements. Insomuch that
it was generally understood, among the better in-
formed classes of the North, that General
.LEE'S army now in and around Fredericksburg
was, upon a moderate computation, about
twice the numerical force he had assembled under his
banners when his headquarters were at Chancel-
loraville. It was, in point of fact, about as little
likely that General HOOKER would venture upon
any movement of his army en masse across the
Rappahannock with a view to a serious onslaught
upon. the accumulated forces of General LEE, as it
was (when our last advises last left America) in the
highest degree probable that General LEE would,
on the contrary, soon enough commence hos
tilities in serious earnest against General
HOOKER ! The supposition in regard to
the designs of the Confederate Commander-in-Chief
appeared to be this—that he would probably direct
General STUART to advance in hot haste with his
cavalry across Maryland into Pennsylvania, until
Gen. HOOKER would be compelled to despatch a
portion of his forces in hurried pursuit. And that
then, upon those diminished forces of the Federal
army left in the vicinity of the Rappahannock,
General LEE would direct the whole fury of his
attack from th 3 neighbourhood of Fredericksburg.
Supposing which course to be followed out, the
routing of HOOKER'S army and the advance of LEE
upon Washington—certainly do appear to be not
improbable consequences.
Turning our regard now from the Rappahannock
towards the Mississippi, the situation we shall find
there also more than ever ominous for the Federals.
if our telegrams—given elsewhere in this same
Page, and given there it will be seen very
f4llY—are examined with any ordinary care
—lt will be perceived from them that
both Northern and Southern accounts agree
as U. the really perilous position in which General
BANKS had been placed by the movements princi-
pally of General KIRBY SMITH. The last men-
tioined enterprising Brigadier had not only driven
General BAliEs before him from Port Hudson, but
had. contrived by the 6th instant th successfully to
affect the complete occupation of Milliken's Bend.
Geavral BANKS himself, during the progress of the
shairp fighting that had ended thus in his signal
die comfiture, had unhappily lost an arm—his negro
regiments being fairly beaten back in .a sharp
hard-to-hand contest down to the very river bank
and under shelter of the gunboats.
the mere fact of his occupation of mid.
ke a's Bend, with 10,000 victorious con_
feeerates, it is considered, even by the Federals,
that General KIRBY SMITE has succeeded
in cutting cuff Guneral;GßANT from his supplies.
An attack upon the rear of General GRANT was
looked to as a matter of exceeding probability both
in New York and in Washington. The resolute
defender of Vicksburg, that same dauntless General
PE KBERTON whose soul-stirring address to the gar-
m was given by us only the other day, is stated,
moureover, to be sostrong and so well-provisioned there
in Vicksburg that he has apprized General JOHN-
STOI TE that Vicksburg wall hold out coute qui coute 90
long as JOHNSTONE may care to occupy himself in
Ilia preparations for its relief. General PEMBER-
Tcm, in fact, has informed General JOHNSTONE
tl'at he is on no account to hurry himself,

law. Why should so much be done for all classes
of the community, and the most helpless among
them be left to the mercy of those who do not seem
to know the meaning of justice. The sums charged
by these Court milliners and dressmakers are enor-
mous, and it is scandalous that they cannot
afford to employ extra hands on an emer-
gency, instead of crushing the life out of
those committed to their care. MARY ANNE
WALKLEY will not have died in vain if her
wretched end calls attention to the fate of her

living fellow sufferers. There are many more
pining as she did for fresh air and liberty to whom
a brief respite from unremitting toil in the midst

of their close application, and a longer rest at night
in a well ventilated chamber, would seem like a

boon from Heaven. Surely something could be done
for this oppressed and persecuted class, and if not
it will be a mockery to call ourselves a humane
people, and it will be an outrage on commonsense

.or any lady to attend a charitable institution in a

dress that has perhaps been the last touch to the

overwhelming toil that has sacrificed a life. This

is not the first time that these cases have been be-

fore the public, and no one has an excuse to plead
ignorance, but if they never heard of them before,
let them now take heed, and at once institute in-

quiries and exact reforms. Some obstacles are sure

:o lie in the way, and much opposition will have to

be overcome, but if ever there was a :cause which

required able advocates, it is that of the dress

maker's apprentice. No trouble can be too great

,hat is undertaken to free them in some

measure from their thraldom, and few im-

provem en ts in the social system can be

more satisfactory than that which brings a ray of

sunshine to lighten their benighted ways. It is to
be trusted that something will be done to check

this growing evil, and remove this blot from the

reputation of all immediately or remotely concerned

in these transactions. Many wrongs are perpetrated

hrough carelessness or inattention, but to persist

willingly and knowingly in sanctioning injustice is

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a positive crime, and ends in making the tacit

observer as guilty as the actual instigator of the

evil, and indeed more so if possessed of greater
power and more extended influence.

The members of the Royal Geographical Society
assembled in great force last night to welcome the
fortunate travellers who have succeeded in solving
the mystery that has perplexed so many genera-
tions. The many famous adventurers who, from
the days of HERODOTIIS, have wandered over the
have le
aaustthl:
us no
continent and given us details, more or less
,otthhnt of
eiAfritchaen
expiesotpelneceahnvd
thetheir
iwave,ht
thethetheexplorers express purposeof discovering
the source of the Nile, have
or the good fortune to approach
fNyanza Lake.
The difficulty of the route, the dangers to be ap-
prehended from the natives, and the ig
the exact direction in which to search
or the
source, all combined to keep successive explorers
out of the right line of search. It was reserved
to Captain SPEKE, on his discovery of the Lake
Victoria Nyanza some five years since, at once to
guess the secret. He tells us that when he found
this large sheet of sweet water, lyii g about 3,500

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THE PRUSSIAN KING'S FAUX PAS— that he is to bide his time, to act and move with
1 Tre Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, M.P.—The all due deliberation—to take as his motto, in effect,
200 g of the Polish Scythe, &c. &c., in FUN THIS WEEK.
One Penny. the ancient device of the PLUNKETT'S, festina lente!

Things are beginning in fact to look about as
badly for General HOOKER on the Rappahanock,
for General BANKS on the Mississippi, and for
General GRANT before Vicksburg, as they are now
looking propitiously for General LEE at Fredericks-
burg, for General KIRBY SMITH at Milliken's Bend,
for General PEMBERTON even in Vicksburg, and
for General JOHNSTONE—stiII vaguely, but for that
very reason the more formidably—somewhere !

It must be a matter of regret to all right judging
persons that the jury who were engaged to con-
sider the circumstances concerning the death of
MARY ANNE WALRLEY, should have decided in so
strange a manner. All the details that were eli-
cited tend to prove the correctness of the reports that
were at first circulated regarding this unhappy af-
fair. The words of the verdict prove either too
much or too little. They are that the " deceased
died of apoplexy, but there is too much reason to
fear that her death was greatly accelerated by work-
ing long hours in a crowded workroom, and sleep-
ing in a close badly ventilated bedroom." This is
too much for any jury to say, without calling in
question the conduct of those who authorise such
treatment of their employers. The hours of work
in themselves were shamtful, they would have been
too much for occasional pressure, but for a continu-
ance were really scandalous. From half-past six
in the morning until eleven at night, and sometimes
a much longer period was this poor girl condemned
to toil. There is something monstrous in the idea
of young girls being condemned to endure such an
infliction in the heart of a civilised city. There are
meetings constantly taking place to benefit the poor,
succour the distressed, and relieve the suffering,
but in the midst of these kind intentions and
earnest efforts the poor dressmaker's apprentice is
being slowly killed or rendered a hopeless invalid.
It seems that no one can or will help these sufferers.
It is no excuse for those whose life of fashion is the
cause of giving employment to the establishments
where they toil, to say that they know nothing of
it. They ought to know, and to institute inquiries
concerning the mode practised in these houses.
The laissez alley style of procedure is often the
cause of great injustice and injury, but in this case
it results in positive cruelty. The account given
of the sleeping apartmen s is, if possible, worse than
the description of the day's work. Each cell, as it
might be called, is " just large enough to contain
two beds placed end to end, and there were two
young women in each bed." In allusion to thissub-
ject the writer of a letter to the Times observes
with great truth that " the horrors of the middle
passage in a slave ship can hardly exceed this."
The same writer truly remarks that it is a wonder
that an infectuous disease should not have broken
out at this establishment, and recommends the
neighbours to call upon the officer of health of the