The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

:own.

Charleston advices received at Richmond to the
30th state that the bombardment of Fort Sumter on
that day was the heaviest that has yet taken place.
From sundown on the 28th to sundown on the 29th
1,200 shots from 15-inch mortars and 3001 b. parrott
guns were thrown against Sumter. On the even-
ing of the 30th the Federals opened upon the north-
east angle of Fort Sumter from Forts Gregg and
Wagner, and two other batteries on Cumming's
Point.
Three monitors were also engaged.

The Confederate casualties were seven wounded.
The bombardment continued, but was slackening.
General Banks has returned to New Orleans, to
command the expedition, which, it is reported, will
land on the Texas coast, and form a junction with
Frank lin, who is advancing via Opelonsas. Franklin
has occupied Opelonsas after a slight skirmish.
Guerillas still infest the banks of the Mississippi,

firing on passing• steamers.
General Butler's new command is said to include
Baltimore, Fort Monroe, Norfolk, and North Caro -
dna—Schenck and Foster being both superseded.
A mass meeting of the United Tamminy and
Mozart Democracy has been held at Now York.
The Governor of New York made a speech, saying it
was statistically proved that every twelve months
the Federal army lost, from various causes, one-half
of the men in service. He declared that the war,
as carried on by the Administration, could only
end in ruin and national bankruptcy. Democracy
proposed to add conciliation to the power of force.
He denounced the efforts of the Administration to
centralise power and diminish State rights. The
Administration has dealt unfairly with New York
in regard to furnishing troops, and favoured New
England.

At a complimentary visit to the New Jersey
municipality, Admiral Lisvoski said he was sure
that the Emperor of Ituesia sympathised with the
North in the present unjust rebellion, and hoped
and believed, as he himself did, that the North
would be successful. He should shortly take as
many of his fleet as possible to Waehington to
winter there.

Nov. 4, Morning.

The Republicans have gained the elections in
New York State. Their majority is estimated at
from 15,000 to 20,000. In New York City the
Democrats have lost 10,000 votes since last year.
The Republican ticket has been elected in Massa-
chusetts by a majority of 40,000.

The New York limes believes that the Confede-
rates are executing a movement against General

Burnside.

Money tight. Gold, 441- per cent. premium.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (Evening).

An extensive conspiracy has been discovered in
Kentucky and Ohio to liberate the Confederate
prisoners at Camp Chase and overthrow the State
Government. Numerous persons have been
arrested.

Another expedition has sailed from New Orleans
o some point on the Texan coast.

General Butler has superseded General Forster
in the command of the department of Virginia and
North Carolina.

At a democratic mass meeting held at New York
the Poles were lustily cheered, and vigorous groans
given for the Russians.

Twenty thousand furloughed soldiers have left
Washington for New York. They received free
transportation, it being understood that they
would vote for the republican ticket on the election
day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (Evening).
Money has been extremely tight since Saturday,
it being difficult borrow money on call at 7 per
cent. The tightness is attributed to the large
public conversions of the currency into 5 dol. 20c.
bonds. Stocks have been unfavourably influenced
by the tightness of the money market, but are re-
covering slightly. Yesterday there appeared less
stringency in the Stock Market.
Gold 461 per cent. premium, at which quotation
it has been steady since Saturday. Exchange on
London—bankers' bills, 160 to 161 ; Stocks fiat;
New York Centrals, 1371; Illinois Centrals, 1231 ;
Erie, 108: ; 6 per Cent. United States, 1071. Cotton
dull, 81 to 830. Flour quiet. Wheat very firm.
Corn depressed. Provisions- dull. Coffee steady.
Molasses heavy. Petroleurni crude, 271 ; refined,
41. The decline has caused heavy losses among
speculative dealers in this, article.
THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

POSEN, Nov. 10.
The Posener .Zeitung publishes the following
from its Warsaw correspondent :
" Half the population will soon have been tran-
sported to Siberia. On the night of the sth inst.
some 20 persons were arrested in the house of N.
ruppe, Zy tsa• street. The Muscovites boast of
having discovered the printing• office of the National
Government. This is at least the tenth clandestine
establishment they have found out, but the decrees
of the National authorities, nevertheless, continue
to appear in print. M. Weuglinski, formerly a
member of the Council of State, whose capability
was much appreciated by the Grand Duke Con-
stantine, has been arrested. Dr. Januskiewica
has experienced the same fate. Rumours continue
to be current that General Berg has resolved upon
striking terror into the Polish ladies. One of their
number is to be publicly beheaded. Report has
even pointed out the intended victim in a sister of
the order of St. Felician, named Trochanownka,
recently arrested."

The night

Wyszynski,

A Popular and Practical `lntroduction to Law
Studies, and to _Every Department of the Legal
Profession. By Samuel Warren, D.C.L., Q.G.,
Recorder of Hull, and Master of Lunacy. Third
Edition. Two Volumes. William Maxwell.
Although that unmistakeable stamp of success,
" Third Edition,', is conspicuously visible on the
title page of this, in every sense, weighty treatise,
the work is essentially a new work altogether. The
fruits of the learned author's labours since they were
first put forth have ripened : or, rather, to adopt an
ap:er metaphor—the sturdy and apparently ample
bole, already familiar to the law students of an earlier
period, has here expanded, ring by ring, during the
last six years, has struck deeper ruot, and spread
forth wider branches, in all directions. It is
umbrageous now to the extent of seven hundred
and eighty-four leaves. As the result of re-
searches at once the most minute and the most
comprehensive, of a scrupulous attention to details
throughout, and of assiduous application in regard
to the symmetry and lucidity of their arrangement,
the work, if viewed merely as a repertory of pro
fessiocal information, is not only very remarkable,
but is, beyond that, entitled to our most cordial and
earnest admiration. It is remarkable, however, far
more than for the value of the materials out of
which, or for the merits of the design upon which,
it has been constructed. It is peculiarly and espe-
cially remarkable for the philosophical spirit in
which the whole of it has been conceived, and with
which every particle of it may be said to have been
more or less animated. Mr. Warren, we observe,
frankly acknowledges in his elaborate preface to
this third edition of his " Law Studies" that, whet,
occupied in entirely re-writing the work and, while
thus rewriting it, enlarging it so very con-
siderably, he throughout his labours " en-
deavoured to keep steadily in view" the
impressive advice conveyed to all thoughtful
readers, in a passage contained in Another Preface—
that penned by Lord Bacon as an introduction to
his "Elements of the Common Law of England."
The passage may be found here at page viii, in
its entirety—beginning, " I hold every man a
debtor to his profession." It furnishes us at once
with a key to what might otherwise have remeirsee
an almost inscrutable mystery, meaning by that Mr.
Warren's spontaneous acceptance of the responsi-
bi:ities devolving upon one adventuring upon so very
laborious and complicated an enterprize. Conscien-
tiously ho has held himself, as Lord Bacon saith ht
holds every man, to be—" a debtor to his pro-
fession." If it were solely by the production ot
this one comprehensive and substantial work—nobly
has \lr. Warren acquitted himself of that debt
of his to his profession. Bat, by other works ot
a remarkable, though of a lesser, value than that
attaching to the present, he had already,
in this sense (it may have been unconsciously, so
to speak, instinctively) acted in accordance with the
suggestion of the philosophic Lord Chancellor. His
admirably well digested epitome of " Blackstone's
Commentaries," now one of the recognised text-
books at our two ancient Universiiies—his masterly
series of discourses addressed to intending Attorneys
and Solicitors, discourses orally delivered by Mr.
Warren, some few years back, at the Law Inatitu-
tion, in Chancery-lane, prier to the date of their
original publication—an occasional digest of im-
portant subjects relating to especial divisions of
our legal administration, as, for example, one in
reference to Parliamentary Law or the Law of
Elections : professional works of this kind Mr.
Warren has at intervals contributed to the
book shelves of his professional brethren, as one
readily and eagerly holding with Lord Bacon, that
every man is a debtor to his profession. This, more-
over, it should also be especially remembered, in his
instance, while he himself, throughout these thirty
years, has been actively engaged in his profession as
an advocate, without the bar and within it, in the
stuff gown and in the silk. The man who has thus,
during very nearly the lifetime of one entire genera-
tion, been toiling energetically in his profession,
both at the desk and at the bar—having, quite apart
from his profession, in very despite of the proverbial
jealousy of that most jealous mistress the Law, as-
sumed and held a very high and brilliant position as
one of the chief contributors to the popular and
imaginative literature of the age. The author,. .
his youth, of "The Diary of a Late Physician
The author, in his early manhood, of len
Thousand a Year !" The former of these two
celebrated works sounding, prematurely, and
in thrilling chords, the whole. gamut of iet
una
latter
suffering from the treble to the diapason. Th
of the two constituting, what might be called
par
excellence, and without art atom on,
the typical prose satire of exaggeration,
the of the day. This sarcastic
WARSAII, 2
, Nov. 10. ,rel.tor of Oily GLintrion and 'Fitt, lebat 'Titmouse,
Siight
before last the respected citizens this pathetic celebrant of, the victim of "
Wenelineki, Bayer, Kramstilck, Cold,' of the Cencer, and of "Consumption,"