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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1863.

Again Mr. GLADSTONE has thought better of it.
He is unconvinced, of course—he always is—that
he can in any way be guilty of error. The prin-
ciple of taxing Clubs he still maintains to be the
right principle—just exactly as he says precisely
the very same thing in regard to the principle of
taxing Charities. Yet, again, in regard to Clubs,
he does (last night) precisely what he did (a night
or two previous) in regard to Charities. The
House, in each instance, will have notice of it—
that is of Mr. GLADSTONE'S new fiscal crotehet.
And so—very wisely, very discreetly, very judi-
ciously, but still to the last, we repeat, obstinately
unconvinced that lie CAN, by any possibility, be in
error—Mr. GLADSTONE drops it. He and the rest
of his colleagues have such an extremely wholesome
fear of the division lists—they are getting sick and
tired of eternally seeing it handed over to the
tellers of the Opposition. The thing with them is
becoming at length quite tedious, quite mono-
tonous. Bence it is that we are witnessing
even Mr. GL&DwroNr s growing cap, city—
coolly, under the observation of the whole House—
for swallowing—his own proposition !It is not
that he chews his leek slowly and deliberately from
the white root to the green stalk—he just simply,
as one might say, bolts it whole! With a wry
look askance—when nobody happens to be watch-
ing him—at that pitiless, remorseless FLUELLEN
sitting opposite ! The effect becomes all the mare
ludicrous in each instance precisely because the
Chancellor of the Exchequer still continues
to hold so obdurately by his own opinions—the
very opinions he is abandoning or acknowledging,
at least, to be powerless.

Altogether the present Ministry is surely the
most exhilirating Ministry the country has had
the amusement of being governed by, for a long
while. Say since the later months of the last MEL-
BOURNE Administration ! Then, as now, the Prime
Minis'er was the rleasantest, the liveliest, the most
beloved and admired of careless joke-masterp.
Then, as now, his colleagues were perpetually
doing nothing except making ineffectual attempts
to guide and influence the Legislature : getting
again and again defeated, carrying no reforms
whatever, and yet still pertinaciously clinging to
office. Nevertheless we have, in regard to the pre-
3nt Cabinet,
at least the satisfaction of being ex-
hilarated not
only by the speeches of the LAughil3g

Philosopher who is at its head, but even by his and
his colleagues' failures. Time after time there
was proof of this—only as recently as last evening.
Mr. HENLEY, in bringing up the report of the
Committee as to the proposed extinction of the City
Police Force, virtually pronounces the extinctio❑
of Sir GEORGE GREY'S pet project. Whereat
there is " laughter" and " cheers" in the House
of Commons. Sir ROBERT PEEL another while
announces that the intention of the Govern-
ment as to the Registration of Assurances
(Ireland) Bill cannot ba declared then by
him as Secretary for Ireland, but will be de-
cided upon and duly announced a little later on.
Again '• Laughter" from the House of Commocs !
While Mr. GLADSTONE'S earlier announcement last
evening that his proposal for the taxing of Clubs
will (as had been done previously with regard to
the proposal of the taxing of Charities) be with
drawn was greeted—as Lord PALMERSTON'S
speeches are greeted—with "laughter" mingled
with cheering ! It is now, in fact, a perpe-
tually recurring alternative of Ministers—either
to avoid a division and be laughed at, cr
to risk a division and be defeated. Latterly
their choice has been for the former. They
seem to prefer, just now at least—leaning upon that
one of " the two horns of the dilemma" in which
they have contrived for some time past to place
themselves.

Last night the subject of Poland was discussed in
the House of Lords. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY

presented a petition from the merchants of the City

of London. The noble lord spoke at considerable
length, and with great eloquence on the question.
He commented on the apparently inscrutable
mystery that attended the connection be-
tween Russia and Prussia. Judging from

all that was known, however, he feared
that the working of it wee as dark and atrocious as
such schemes generally were. Even in the case of
the Poles who were arrested in Prussia and handed
over to the Russian Government, Lord SHAFTES
BURY truly said that, if not already put to death,
he feared they were undergoing a worse fate

than death itself. Further on the noble lord
referred to the despatches recently received,
and forcibly declared that in them there
was no hope for Poland, and then cited
this striking instance :—" In October, 1862, the
Emperor ALEXANDER said to a gentleman of high
station, whom he had summoned to St. Peters-
burg for the purpose of communicating to him the
information he desired to give, and then sentenced
him to perpetual exile, I see now that the only
way of governing Poland is by terror.' The neat
day the same gentleman having been referred by
the EMPEROR to Prince GORTSCHAKOFF, heard
from him the same words, with this addition—' I
tell you that, if the Poles force us to it, we will
make Poland a heap of ashes and of corpses.' "

No wonder after such an exemplification that the
noble lord exclaimed that such men were not fit to
govern the destinies of so many millions of

the human race. It was said that ALEX-
ANDER IL was humane and kind, but if so his
language truly concealed his thoughts. The true
rule by which to judge of men's actions was this—
"By their fruits shall ye know them." The noble
lord concluded his admirable speech by declaring
that her MAJzsTY's Government might remind the
Emperor of RUSSIA of the state in which

his empire was at the present moment,
and of the disorderly state of the army
and many other signs of internal decay. Also he
reminded them of the cold calculating manner In
which this country had treated the Poles on a for-
mer occasion of trial, and thus wound up his
remarks—" The Poles, happen what may, will
always have all our hearts and all our sympathies.
I do hope, and it is the prayer of every man within
these realms, that we may yet live to see the time
when this down-trodden and long-oppressed people
shall enter again on their ancient rights, and,
after so much experience and bitter sorrow and
ingratitude, inaugurate a noble career of civil and
religious liberty, of humanity, and of justice.',
It has been truly said that—
" His blessing is sure
Who fights the good fight of the feeble and poor ;"

and no man living has a better claim to that benefit
than Lord SHAFTESBURY. For many years he has
devoted himself to the sacred cause of defending
the oppressed, aiding the distressed, and fighting
for the persecutEd. The real appreciation of such
conduct is from above, but his fellow-men should
be mindful of his zeal and labours on their be-
half. Lord RUSSELL made an impressive
harangue, and expressed himself warmly concerning
the wrongs of that afflicted country they were then
discussing. He deprecated, however, any proposal
of dismemberment, as it would lead to confusion,
and create worse evils if granted. He said that, as
in the battle-field the birds of prey surround the
carrion, so i❑ any political disturbance the moral
vultures of Europe flock together to take their
part. Finally, Lord RUSSELL earnestly de-
clared his conviction that now there could not
be the same wrongs perpetrated as heretofore.
" First, he asked them to rely on her MAJESTY'S
Government for doing their utmost, and, in the
next place, upon that public opinion of Europe,
which you may depend upon it the Emperor of
RUSSIA, autocrat as he is, will not neglect. I ask
you to rely, finally, on the general sense of justice
which pervades the people of this and other coun-
tries. Above all, I ask you to rely upon that
Heaven which will not allow oppression to
pass unpunished, and which will not allow
these sufferings much longer to endure."
This is a plausible argument enough, but
whether this plea or that project fails, it is a gratify-
ing fact that the House of Lords, the first assembly
in the world, has eagerly entered into the discus-
sion, and welcomed with loud cheers the eloquent
speeches of the two noble lords, which are creditable
to themselves and honourable to their country.

The events of the present day certainly tend to
reverse all our ancient opinions and dispel the
illusions of our credulous youth. From time imme-
morial the Turkish SULTAN has always been consi-
dered the:representative of a gloomy and despotic
state, of crouching slaves, whose lives were not
worth a moment's purchase if they infringed in the
slightest degree on the commands of their imperi-
ous lord. Oar poets have helped to foster this no-
tion; and the dark stories hidden by the waters of
the Bosphorus have lost none of their terrors in
verse or fiction. But when we outlived the age of
romance, our opinions of the Sultanship did not im-
prove. Professing a faith which of itself offers almost
insuperable barriers to real progress, living under a
system of government which affords every facility
for all kinds of peculation and favouritism ; intole-
rant, until lately, to a degree that would have been
dangerous but for his weakness, the Turk is cer-
tainly out of place in modern Europe. That favourite
dogma of modern statesmen—balance of power—
forbids hia expulsion ; but the incongruity of his
position is self-evident, and the jealous distrust
with which the Turk looks on the outer
world is fully repaid by the dislike, if not
contempt, of the European. But suddenly all i%
changed. The Turk has woke to life. The
SULTAN, who is supposed to alternate between
stately inaction and f.,rocious despotism, has come
frankly forward, visited his dominions, mixed with

his people, ankencouraged modern improvements.
A Turkish ruler anxiously encouraging the con.
struction of railroads, courteously receiving
foreigners in their private capacity, stimulating the
growth of cotton, and visiting an English
horse race, is certainly a startling subversion
of our ancient ideas, Yet ail these wonder-
ful events have been witnessed during ABDUL
Aziz's recent visit to the pleasant city of
Smyrna. That city is, as we all know, thronged
with Christian residents. No fewer than 5,000
English and French are computed to reside by the
shores of the bay, while the total number of Chris-
tians is said to be 100,000—a number exceeding
that of the Turks by ose-fifth. The fact of the
SULTAN visiting such a city is in itself worthy
of note. It is the scene of modern
thought, enterprise, and action, and as
such must impress the mini of the Royal
guest with a sense of the vast difference between
Oriental and Western life. That ABDUL Aziz
capable of appreciating the aspect of the political
horizon is shown by his ready encouragement of
the cotton cultivation, and his evident iesiro to
maintain friendly relations with England. He
lodged in the villa of an Englishman, he visited
their races, and showed marked attention to the chief
residents of the British community. His first railway,
too, was taken under English auspices, and his
satisfaction augurs well for the future of British
engineering science in the East. We trust that
the dawn of a better day may now be breaking foi
the Turks under the guidance of a wise and en-
lightened Sovereign, who has the ability to appre-
ciate the progressive movement of the times, and
the character to resolve that his people shall take
part in it.

and believes there is always a "fault" in every
"misfortune.'' Mrs. Lescrimiere, on the other
hand, is all heart and sympathy. To her the child
and the stranger, the doubting and the disappointed,
alike turn to intrude their sorrows, and find comfort
and counsel. Su universal is her partisanship for
ail who require it, that ehe says she inclines to the
the Irishman's way of thinking, who exclaimed,
•3 What's the use of standing up for a man when
he's in the right—it's when he's wrong he needs
you !" Maud, the rector's pretty daughter, just
❑ineteen, is a charming sketch, true to nature.
She is engaged to Walter Escott, the curate, a man
of exquisite sensibility but reserved exterior, who
hates " a scene" and shrinks from all d€monstra
tions of feeling. The chapter entitled " a word
before is worth two after," is admirable, because it
is so simple and so natural. Escott tells his
betrothed how he has just refused the gift of a
living that wnuld have enabled them to marry at
once, because he did not consider it to be good
enough for them ; and Maud, at first listening with
bashful plea,ure to the good news of the offer,
suddenly finds her bright vision dispelled, and dis-
appointment and doubt of her lover's affection dis•
turb the serenity of her heart. Her hopes, and
fears, and hesitations, and the wounded pride and
demeanour which those unjust suspicions produce
in the sensitive Escott, are most naturally and
forcibly pourtrayed. "If I only kno v how to make
him love me very, very much," says poor Maud, in
a heart-broken appeal to her good grandmother.
" Child ! child !" remonstrates that wise lady,
"make him happy by always showing him a placid,
loving face ; comfort him with cheerfulness and
serenity, and he would not be able to live without
you, though he does not fall at your feet to tell you
so every day." There is so much practical sense and
homely truth conveyed in the pages of this story,
as to make it a profitable, as well as a pleasant
book to place in the bands of the young. The sen-
timental novel reader and the lovers of sensation
may be attracted by the episode of Mrs. Brown and
"Dodge"—an episode we should have rather dis-
pensed with, but " Skirmishing" has higher claims
to the approbation of its readers, and for such we
very heartily commend it.

A Dark Night's Work. By Mrs. Gaskell. 1 vo.
pp. 299. Smith, Elder, and Co.

Between Wilkie Collins' No Name and Charles
Reade's Very Hard Cash—there appeared for a few
weeks a strangely imagined, and at times a quite
horribly attractive little story, by Mrs. Gaskell,
called " A Dark Night's Work," Upon the reason
for its having that weird title, the whole of
he interest of the narrative hangs. The "Dark
Night's Work," being the perpetration by
he father of the heroine of the tale, of that
half-accidental or partially-intended kind of
murder, that the jury empanne led to try the
person accused of it, so often softens down into
" Manslaughter." The Dark Night's Work is
more than the commission of that crime by
Mr. Wilkins, the attorney. It is still more
if possible its after concealment—by a faithful old
attendant of the murderer, or at any rate manslayer,
by his groom, that is, poor old honest Dixon. But
still more is the Dark Night's Work, the partici-
pation with these two, with Dixon and Mr
Wilkins in its concealment—of Mr. Wilkins's
daughter, the gentle and beautiful Ellinor ! Then
actually betrothed to, but afterwards (in conse-
quence of the gloomy mystery of a something gone
wrong surrounding her) estranged from Mr. Corbet,
a pupil of the parish clergyman, Mr. Ness. One
Minster, the chief clerk, and afterwards the jnnior
partner of Mr. Wilkins—is the victim, the man
murdered or at any rate slain. his body, after
many ineffectual attempts to discover in it some
signs of returning animation, is hid away, buried,
in fact, under cover of a very dark, starless, moon-
less night, in the shrubbery attached to the dwell-
ing-house of the murderer. Ellinor and Dixon,
out of pity for the wretched father of the
one and master of the other, helping him (-Wilkins)
to put the corpse of Punster effectually—
as they do, in fact—out of sight. Hence,
all the misery slowly growing up and ac-
cumulating throughout the rest of the narra-
tive. Mrs. Gaskell appears to be partial to
the writing of homely or domestic romances, the
principal interest of which should hang upon the
perpetration and the concealment of a murder by
one of the prominent characters appearing upon the
scene of the story. It was thus precisely, it will be
remembered, in regard to her earliest fiction—in
some respects still perhaps to regarded as her best
—" Mary Barton." It is so, as we have
shown, in this the latest of her works of ima-
gination. The Sixteen Chapters of "A Dark Night's
Work" will be perused by all who open the first and
read on for a page or two—it will be perused down
to the end with unflagging interest, for the tale is
written by one who has lived to become a mistress of
her art. Yet, for all that, it will add but very slightly,
if at all, to Mrs. Gaskell's reputation. After breath-
ing the morbid, un wholesome atmosphere that hangs,
with a sense of gloom and oppression, over one dur-
ing the perusal of "A Dark Night's Work"—one
turns with a feeling of positive relief to the mere
remembrance of the same writer's sparkling,
humorous, vivacious sketches of" Cranford."

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Geographical, at 81,

"Arrival of Expedition at Khartum, from Zanzibar,"
" Landbo:ough's Traverse of Australia," and "Madagas-
car," Lieut. Oliver. Tuesday—Actuaries, at 7--Syro-
Egyptian, at 71, "Coffin L'd of Men-ka-ra, Mycerinus of
the Greeks," Mr. I%larsden—Royal Institution, at 3,
" Sound," Professor Tyndall—Engineers, at 8, "American
Iron Brikr,es,' Mr.Colburn, and "Communication between
London and Dublin," Mr. -Watson—Zoological, at 9,
" Derbyan Eland, Western Africa," and " Equatorial
Elephant and Gorilla," Mr. &Ade, and " Mammals and
Birds, Madagascar," Dr. Sclatcr. Wednesday—Archno-
logical Association, at 4, annual general— Graphic, at 8—
Society of Arts, at 8, " Excrementitious Matter," Dr.
Thudichum, and " System of Earth Sewage," Rev, H.
Moule—Microscopical, at 8. Thursday—Antiquaries, at
B—Royal Institution, at 3, "Geology," Professor Austad
Friday— Philological, at 8, Anniversary, " Umbrian
Words," Professor -Newman—Royal Institution, at 8,
" Molecule of Water," Dr. 'Dolling. Saturday—Horticul-

taral, at 4, Promenade—Royal Institution, at 3, " Lan-
guage," Professor Max Muller.—iithenceum.
THE LAST MADNESS OF COMTE (the author of
Positivism)—is thus recounted in the .Reader :
" The French philosopher, Auguste Comte, was led,
towards the end of his life, into an extraordinary modifies
tion or development of his so-called system of " Positive
Philosophy," consisting of nothing less than the proclama-
tion to the world of a new form of religion, with a priest-
hood, rites of worship, &c. The veteran philosopher, hav-
ing fallen in love with a certain young lady named Clotilde
—as he himself relates with the most astounding navietd—
found, in the access of fervour and of new light on all sub-
jects which this love-experience brought him, that his pre-
vious philosophy, as expounded on his great six•
volume work on Positivism, erred by defect in the
emotional or sentimental element, and required to be
supplemented by a vast addition that should do justice
to that element. Man, in short, must have a religion ;
and the positive philosophy would not be the all-in-all it
professed to be unless it could carry a religion, and even a
ritual, in its forefront. It was not, however, necessary to
go back upcn the positive philosophy, and upset any of its
prior conclusions. It we, all right so far; and a perfectly
consistent religion might be stuck on to it, or developed
logically out of it. This religion, as Comte at last pro-
claimed it, was to consist in the Culte systematique de
Humanitd ; and much of his time in his last years was
spent in organizing this " Systematic Worship of
Humanity," and arranging, as its first high-priest, some
of its ceremonies. We believe he used to officiate at the
marriages and funerals of some of the small gather-
ing of followers he had in Paris. At all events,
he published a calendar of the year adapted to the
new worship—each of the 365 days being consecrated
to the worship of some particular great mau of the past,
while each week was apportioned to some very great man,
and each of the twelve months was associattd with the name
and memory of some colossally great man. There were also
four days in the year set apart for the execration of the
memory of the four men whom Comte regarded as the
greatest ruffians, or worst retrograde men of the universal
past— Julian the apostate being one, and the first Napoleon
another. But poor Comte died, complaining grievously
that this religion of his was very little taken up even by
those who had taken most eagerly to his positive philosophy.
In Britain, where his ideas and his reputation were spread,
even in his lifetime, far more widely than in Frsnce, he
saw no one likely to hold up, after his death, the banner of
the religion of positivism.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA
XENT.—Yesterday the Duke of Devonshire's committee,
atter hearing evidence on behalf of Lord Lonsdale and the
Sisters of Charity occupying the convent at Hammersmith,
the bill for the construction of the
meranaith, and Xawiipatim, gam was tlarowlz
proposed Barnes, Ham.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

WRECK OF THE ANGLO-.S►AXON, WITH
FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

NEW YORK, APRIL 30 (Evening).

The steamer Anglo-Saxon, for Quebec, was
wrecked four miles east of Cape Rice, at noon of the
27th, during a dense fog. The deck broke up one
hour after the vessel struck. The crew and passen-
gers numbered 444 persons, of whom 187 are known
to have been saved. Two of the steamer's boats
and a raft which left the vessel have not been heard
of, but search is being made for them. The Captain
is supposed to be drowned.
The following are the names of the cabin pas-

sengers saved :
The Hon. John Young and family.
Females—Hope, Betram, Inglis,Keerwood, Stod.
dard, Chretien, Wright, James, Jackson and child
Males—Caldwell, Raton, Kirkwood, Chretien
Towers, Kirkness, Fraser, Martin, Sealy, Whites,
Captain heed, Hiles, Cassidy, Lieut. Simpson.

33 cabin, 103 steerage passengers, and 21 of the
crew were saved. The captain, part of the crew,
and a great many passengers were on deck when
the vessel sunk in deep water, and were all lost.

AMERICA.
(Per Arabia.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Morning).

A dvices from New Orleans to the 19th inst.
state that General Banks's expedition up the
River Teche proved very unsuccessful. He had
three engagements with the Confederates—one at
Vermillion Bayou, another near Franklin, and a
third at Bethel Place—in each of which he is
reported to have repulsed the enemy, and captured
1,500 prisoners along the route, and compelled the
Confederates to destroy several transports in order

to escape capture.
General Banks has arrived within a short distunce
of Opelousas.
Reports from Memphis represent that General
Banks had reached Point Coupe, on the west bank
(If the Mississippi, eleven miles higher up than
Port Hudson. If this report were true, General
Banks would be in a position to co-operate with the
Federal fleet in an attask on Port Hudson from
above, but the news requires confirmation.

General Grant continues to make numerous com•
piicated strategical movements below Vicksburg,
with a view to flanking and capturing that posi•

tion.

Twelve more transports are reported to have
passed the Confederate batteries, and to have joined
General Grant below Vicksburg.
The second Federal expedition to Yazoo Pass is
reported to have returned unsuccessful.
There is continued fighting on the Coldwater
River, the result of which do not appear very clear.
The Confederate forces invading Missouri are
under General Price. Their strength is supposed
not to exceed 10,000 men. A portion of them, sup-
posed to be 3,000 strong, with six pieces of artil-
lery, under General Marmaduke, attacked the Fe-
derals at Cape Girardean, on the Mississippi, on the
26th inst., but are reported to have been repulsed.
The Federal commander hod started in pursuit of
them. During their retreat the Confederates are
reported to have been attacked, and repulsed by
another Federal force, which was sent to cut them
off.

In St. Louis 20 armed Confederates seized during
the night the fastest steamer at the Levee, and
escaped with her. The steamers between St. Louis
and Cairo are convoyed by gunboats. The gun
shops in St. Louis are placed under guard, and all
Confederate prisoners have been removed to Alton,

The Confederate investment of Washington,
North Carolina, is said to have been a feint, which
enabled the Confederates during the siege to carry
off immense quanties of grain from Hyde County,
with which they escaped.
No material change in the situation in Tennessee

bas taken place.
The Federals have c aptured the Confederate camp
and 100 prisoners near Franklin.
Rumours were current at Nashville that General
Bragg was shot by General Breckenridge during an
altercation.
The Federal pickets have been driven in, and skir-
mishing has recommenced upon the Nanse Mond

river.

Fifteen adventurers from Mobile have proceeded
to the mouth of the Mississippi, and captured a
Federal tug-boat, which they ran through the
blockading fleet into Mobile.

Thirty-seven Federal regiments will be mustered
out of service between May and June, their enlist-
.
meat time having expired.
By order of the Prize Court, the cargo of the
Peterhoff is being landed and examined, to ascer-
tain if there is contraband of war on board.

Mr. Seward, accompanied by the Prussian and
Swedish Ministers, have visited the army of the

Potomac.

It is reported that munitions of war were found
concealed on board the steamer Tubal Cain, which
cleared from New York for Matamoras, but was
seized by the New York revenue officers when
about to leave.

The steamers Flora and Pet arrived at Wilming
:on on the 16th inst.

NEW YORK, APRIL 29 (Evening),

Considerable excitement prevails in Western
Virginia and Maryland, in consequence of the
appearance of a large Confederate force in those
States. They captured Morgantown, Virginia,
near the Pennsylvanian States line, and attempted
to break up the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, but
only destroyed one bridge, which has since been re-
paired. Fear was entertained for the safety of
'Wheeling and Pittsburg, but large Federal forces
have been moved to all the points threatened, and
the excitement has subsided.
General Hooker commenced a forward movement
on the 27th inst. Heavy masses of artillery and
other troops crossed the Rappahannock at sunset.
It is supposed that General Hooker's design is to
make a flank movement upon Fredericksburg, which
will probably bring on a general engagement.
It is reported that the Federal Monitor fleet is
again in,ide Charleston Bar prepared for another
attack on that place.

The Confederate steamer St. John, bound from
Nassau for a Southern port, has been captured off
Cape Roman. The crew escaped.
The Arabia takes out 74 passengers, and 16,500
dole. in specie.

NEW YORK, APRIL 29 (Evening).

Money, abundant. Gold, 501. Exchange, 165
per cent. premium. Stocks, buoyant. New York
Central, 1161. Illinois, 941. Erie, 84. Six per
Cent. United States Bonds, 1051. Cotton quiet.
Middling Upland, 66 to 664. Flour dull, Wheat
quiet. Corn declining. Provisions dull. Coffee
quiet. Sugar steady. Molasses very dull. Petro-
leum, 24.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, APRIL 29.
Official Mexican reports receiTecl here state that

the French we re several times repu:sed in skirmishes
before Puebla between the 24th and 29th March,
but on the Ritter date they captured Fort San