The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-05 00:00:00

T" DUKE'S MOTTO.
HL N DRED AND SEVENTY-FIRST NIGHT,
and Last Four Nights of the present Season.

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
v_t, Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
Last Four Nights of the present Season.
VHS EVENING, to commence with an Orizinal Sketch,
entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden,
NVlddicornb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic
Dvaina. in Three Acts, and Pnlogue, entitled THE
DuF,E'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougnam,
E. ,v iddi)ombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Carlotta Lecicre Kate Terry, E. Lanue, and
X'Asworthy. Doors open aq,
t 7, commence at half-pveast.
Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

EIV THEATRE-HO YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Promgator and Manag_rer, IN:. B. Webster.
TIIIS EVENING, THE IRISII TIGER.
After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE
VAUNTED MAN ; OR, T E GHOST'S BARGAIN, in
'mi.-Itch will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptat:on of
the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole. R. Phillips,
Sefton, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms.
Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREAT
ED
IL TROVATORE. Messrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips,
Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
Sara, and Miss IL Kelly.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
TO-NIGHT WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE.
Messrs. W. H. Swanborough. Parselle, Vollaire, G. Honey ;
Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, Manders,
and E. Bufton.
Followed by (17th time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL
THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
imp on, Wallace, and Jenny Whit,e.
To conclude with BEEP YOUR TEMPER.
Commence at 7.

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The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 5, 1863.

THERMOMETER.

This morning
This day at Two o'clock .................... 79
:Barometer-30.05.
Wind—S.-W. ; with fine but cloudy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Txis DAY.—Morning, sh. 59m.—Afternoon, 6h. 19m
TO.itoanow.-Morning, 6h. 42m.—Afternoon, 7h. 10m,

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1863,

The Federals, after all, appear to think that they
have really not by any means, as yet, had enough
of ir. Their Debt was calculated to amount, cn the
Ist ultimo, to no less an aggregate amount than
197,000,000 dollars ; that is to say, only 3,000,000
dollars less than a round total of 200,000,000. Mean-
while, as the last phase of the sanguinary and costly
war upon which they have entered with such insen-
Et3te fury, this last bran new Commander-in-Chief of
their principal forces, the army especially appointed
to protect the capital from the hazard of the
daring attack recently threatened to it by
the mai❑ body of the Confederates under
General LEE—this boasted conqueror of
LEE, this vaunted victor over his Confederate
troops, this last great Discovery of President LIN-
COLN as a Strategist, General MEADE, has been
adroitly lured across the Potomac by General LEE,
under the mistaken idea that the latter with his
whole armament wasin full retreat upon Culpepper,
Acting upon this erroneous impression, General
.MEADE, as we know, recently conveyed the whole
of his army across the River Potomac, close by
Harper's Ferry, thence moving confidently along
the south-east incline of tae Blue Ridge
Mountain Range, bent upon intercepting
General LSE's supposed flight down the
Shenandoah Valley, and upon thus actually cuttin
him off fromitichmond ! A " strategic movement "

admirably well thought of in itself. Only—that
in the very act of effecting it, in the most brilliant
manner imaginable, General UEADE awakens
to the recognition suddenly, at I:st, of the unwel-
come truth that his wily antagonist is in no way
disposed to retreat at all ! That, in point of fact,
his recent delay since crossing the river boundary-
line from Maryland into Virginia, is at-
tributable simply to his fizeit determination
to carry away not only the whole of
the vast amount of plunder gathered together by
him both in Maryland and Pennsylvania, but,
with that plunder, the whole of the new crops
reaped and collected in the Shenandoah Valley.
Nay, General MEADE not oaly has opened his ey es
at length to the discovery of this, as the actual
secret of his arch foe's recent and (until now) most
illusory course of proceedings, but, in common with
many of the best informed, both in the Governmental
capital and at his own headquarters, he begins to
have serious doubts whether it may not really prove
to be ultimately the case, as it is now confidently
stated to be—viz., that General LEE, so far from
meditating any retreat, is seriously preparing fur a
new and more audacious invasion of the North, for
a new raid into Maryland, for a bold descent upon
Washington! The statement that such is the in-
tention of the Confederate Commander-in-Chief,
moreover, is now being not thus merely and
vaguely generalised, but is resolving itself into the
specific announcement that LEE proposes forthwith
to cross the Blue Ridge in an advance upon his
intending pursuers (!) somewhere about either
Chester or Thornton Gap..

However this may be in respect to the next
Possible transformation in the aspect of the cam-
p, %11, the situation distiactly occasioned already
by the belligerents was, when our last advices left
the
opposite shores of the Atlantic, per the Jura,
precisely Such
as we have described it 1 The biter
was threatened with being bitten. The assailant was
gathering
up his resources with a view to act a little
more Prudently--upon the defensive ! And, mean-
while, on the other side of the Potomac, to the north-
east of that
riv,the draft was being resolutely
resisted by the
citizens of Maryland. Wher-
ever an enrolling
quarters for the utiiana eer had established his
being, his tempo
racy habitat had been furiously f attacked by the
people, and in several instes had been actually
burnt to the ground by the
i Yet, with all
this upon their hands, with assailants,
rife amongst
them, with killing, at any rater
It
the killing
m u rde r ofi
negroes, come to be looked upon as
f
accomplished during the progress::
the streetl riot,
with their debt approximating
no less fearful an aggregate than 2uo' ost nnit.o(t)(;,
dollars, with the Confederate army notB3
in hot haste down the Shenandoah Valley,ng
but coolly biding its time ill the Upper Pete
for a fresh invasion of Maryland—the Pederals,
in spite of all this, as we began by intimating, would
really and seriously appear to think that they have
not by any means as yet had enough of it. They
are striving to have still more upon their hands, to
thrust additional irons into the fire, to light the old
metaphorical candle at both ends! The candle here
not inaptly typifying that late ,F shining light" the
Republic of the United States ! To light the candle
at both ends—besides continuing industriously to
melt it quite Effectually in twain in the middle !
What in effect was still the persistent clamour
of the redoubtable New York, Herald just prior
to the Jura leaving Quebec upon the 25th ultimo?
Why, nothing less than that President LIN-
COLN should at length be urged mist strew:-
0171 y to secure the sympathetic cc-operation of
the men, not only in the North but also even