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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1863.

NEW NOVEL BY MR. WILLS.
Just ready, in 3 vols.,
T" WIFE'S EVIDENCE.
By W. G WILLS, Esq.,
Author of "Notice to Quit," &c.
Burst and Blaezett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Naval and Yilitary Intelligence.

level surface was obtained which enabled the ships to be
kept clean inside and free from foul collections in the bilges,
a thing impossible previously in iron ships. The cements
were, however, liable to crack, and they did not prevent the
oxidation of the iron inside, and they were capable of being
applied only under certain cireumstances of heat and posi-
tion. These objections, it is said, do not attach themselves
to the use of the Spence ship-lining composition. It is
elastic, and will not crack by any straining of the ship—it
is oleaginous, and prevents any oxidation or corrosion of
the iron ; and, to conclude, it is a perfect non-conductor of
heat or cold, and therefore furnishes the required means for
lining the mess•decks or cabins of iron ships. Her Majesty's
screw iron sloop Sharpshooter, at Portsmouth, of 503 tons
and 150 horse power, has her starboard side internally, from
keel to upper deck, coated with this composition, and the
Buffalo, screw iron sloop of 440 tons, at Woolwich, is also
being coated with it. As a proof of the necessity existing
for protecting the rivet-heads on the inside of irun ships'
bottoms, we may mention that her Majesty's screw troop
ship Urgent, now in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth, has her
bottom plates riveted together by rivets an inch in dia-
meter, and that some hundreds of these ere out of her
bottom, having had their heads on the inside of the ship,
destroyed by the motion of the bilge water and sand or grit.
The fine new transport ship Empress, Captain Ellis,
1,313 tons register, recently purchased by Messrs. Houlder
Brothers, of Leadenhall street, yesterday hauled alongside
the T pier at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, in pre-
paration to embark the 4th battalion Military, Train
under orders for service in New Zealand. The Empress
will undergo her last official inspection this morning by Sir
R. Dacres and staff, commanding the garrison at Woolwich.
The troops will embark in the course of the following after-
noon and take possession of their quarters, and, according
to present orders, the vessel will sail on Monday morning.
The battalion consists of Lieut.-Col. O'Brien, in command ;
Major Gray; Capts. Green and Witchell ; Lieuts. Sewell,
Creagh, and St. Aubyn ; Ensigns Leir and Davis ; Capt.
Reeve, Paymaster ; Quartermaster Lambert, Lieut. and
A.djt. Shackleton, Veterinary-Surg. Appleton, one medical
cace267 non-commissioned officers and privates,
women,3B
r and 50 children.
The steam storeship Balaclava has arrived at Woolwich
Arsenal, after a perilous voyage from Scotland, and has
commenced discharging her cargo of returned stores. The
Balaclava bore up in Yarmouth Roads during the violence
of the gale, and again proceeded to sea on Sunday morning,
when she was enveloped in a thick dark fog, and struck on
a sandbank off Wells Point. She came off at high water
without damage.
The whole of the guns, shot, shell, and other War De-
partment stores belonging to the screw frigate Emerald, 35,
600 horse power, Capt. A. Cumming, lately attached to the
Channel Squadron, have been landed at the Ordnance wharf,
Chatham, and the other stores deposited in the dockyard.
The Emerald is entirely dismantled, and will be paid off at
the Nore to-morrow, and placed in the steam reserve.
A general order from the Horse Guards, signed by Sir J.
y. Scarlett, K.C.8., Adjutant-General, has been received
at Chatham, announcing that her Majesty has been pleased
to approve a neve description of sword belt, with three rows
of gold embroidery, for field marshals, general officers, and
generals on the staff, and a similar belt, with two rows of
embroidery, for staff officers under the rank of general offi-
cers, in lieu of those now prescribed by regulation, which
are found not sufficiently strong for service. The Duke of
Cambridge directs that all general and staff officers on active
employment shall furnish themselves with the new sword
belts, according to the pattern deposited at the Horse
nowGn in ardtsh,and general officers not actively employed will
adopt enew pattern as they may require to replace those
use.

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Oct. 31.—There have been very few move-
ments of ships of war in this port since the departure of the
last mail. Her Majesty's ship Icarus, 11, screw sloop, Com •
mender N. Salmon, V,C., arrived on Saturday night from
the Piraeus, with mails and despatches. She had orders to
return with the mail due on the 7th from Marseilles, but will
have to remain here to repair damages sustained in a colli-
eion with a large French screw transport, the Ardoche,
which was proceeding from a port in Franca to Alexandria.
having troops on board for Cochin China. The collision oc-
curred at 4 in the morning of the 22d inst., 60 miles from
Cape Matapan, and was nearly proving fatal to the Icarus.
Owing to weather being hazy, the mast head light of the
French steamer was mistaken for that of a sailing-vessel,
as she carried no other lights. The English was steering
west, half north, at the rate of six knots, and the French-
man south-east, at a speed of nine knots. On perceiving a
collision was inevitable, the order was given on board the
Icarus to starboard the helm, which, although contrary to
the rule laid down, was the only means, under the circum-
stances, of saving her from being run into amidships, in
which case she would have probably been sunk. As it was,
the French vessel struck her violently on the starboard
quarter, breaking in the bulwarks, laying her side open al-
most to the water-line, and carrying away her mizenmast
and mainroyalmast. 'I he Ardeche lost bowsprit, figurehead,
foretopgaliantmast, Such was the violence of the shock that
it was feared at first she was going down. A bluelight was
burnt as a signal for the French ship to stand by until the
extent of damage was ascertained, and it having been found
that no leak had been sprung in the Icarus, and that her
steering apparatus was still in good order, the two vessels
parted company. On the 24th she fell in with her Majesty's
despatch boat Psyche, Lieut.-Com. Sterne, 40 miles from
Malta, which had left that day for the Piraeus, and the op.
portunity was seized to send a report of the accident to the
commander-in-chief, No blame is attached to Commander
Salmon or the officers of the Icarus for the unfortunate oc-
currence, which is generally attributed to a bad look-out on
board the French ship, and the fact of her not carrying the
usual steamer's lights. The Icarus has been admitted into
dock for repairs, which it will take some six weeks to com-
plete. The vessel will then proceed home to be paid off.
Her Majesty's surveying tender Growler, Staff-Commander
Stokes, returned on Tuesday from surveying operations in
the direction of Sicily, and will leave again in a few days to
continue the survey of the Malta Channel. We are still
expecting the Hydra, 6, paddle-sloop, Lieut.-Commander
G. It. W ilkinson (temporary), from England. This vessel
is to replace the Medina on the surveying service. The
Gibraltar, 81, Capt. Prevost, which left Plymouth on the
7th inst., and is to relieve the Queen, 76, Capt. C. F. Hill-
yar, has not yet made her appearance. The only men-of-
war here just now are the Icarus, Medina, and Boxer. The
Chanticleer, 17, Commander Stirling, left to-day with a
mail for the Piraeus, and despatches for Admiral Smart.
Tho following are the names of the officers and the strength
of the 23d Regiment, which left on Saturday last for Gibraltar
in her Majesty's troopship Orontes :—Lieut. Col. Bell, V.C.
and wife, Lieut.-Col. Gubbies, Surg. Tydd and wife, Capt.
Douglas, Capt. Shadwell, Capt. Tupper, and Capt. Holroyd,
Paymaster Leet, Licuts. Cary, Lees, Lewis, Napier, and
Kenny; Ensigns Fitzgeorge, Williamson, Luxford, Knox,
Patterson, Ramsbottom, Watson, and Graves; Quarter-
master Burden, Assist.-Surg. Greig and wife, 839 non-
commissioned officers and soldiers, 41 women, and 65 chil-
dren. The following also took passage by her :—Assist.-
Surg. Kelly, R.N., Lieut. Calder, R.M., Ensign Lead-
beater, 25th Regiment ; Messrs. Innes and Bain, 172 sailors
and marines, 56 invalids, 22 women, and 36 children, and
Mrs. Spratt and family.
A letter from the Piraeus of the 19th of October says •
"A court-martial was held on board her Majesty's ship
Trafalgar on the 7th inst. to try a private of tbo Royal Ma-
rine Light Infantry, of her Majesty's ship Marlborough,
on the charge of making use of insubordinate language to a
sergeant of the Royal Marines when on duty at the National
Bank at Athens. The Court found the prisoner guilty, and
sentenced him to be deprived of a good conduct badge, to be
placed in the second class for conduct, and to be imprisoned
for three months in one of her Majesty's gaols. Another
court-martial was held on board the Trafalgar on the lath
and 16th inst. on Lieut. Mangan, of her Majesty's ship
Mecanee, upon a charge of drunkenness. The prisoner was
found guilty and sentenced to be dismissed from her Ma-
jesty's service, The following ships of war remain here:—
English—The Marlborough, 121, Capt. C. A. Fellowes, flag
of Vice-Admiral Robert Smart, K.II. ; the Trafalgar,
74, Capt. T Mason ; the Queen, 76, Capt. C. F. Hill-
yar. The Meeanee, 80, Capt. A. Wodehouse, arrived on the
14th inst. from Kalamata, and remains in Salamis Bay,
The Foxhound, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson,also arrived
on the 10th inst. from Kalamata with the mails and des-
patches brought there from Malta by the Meeanee. The
Megicienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, arrived on the 16th
inst. from Nauplia and Patras. The St, George, 86, Capt.
the Hon. F. Egerton, arrived this morning from Kalamata,
and remains in Salamis Bay, and the Orlendo, 46, Capt. G.
Randolph, arrived on the 18th inst., and is also in Salamis
Bay. Her Majesty's ship Trident arrived yesterday morn-
ing with mails, &c., from Malta, and left this evening for
Syria. French—The Magicienne screw frigate (flag of the
Rear-Admiral commanding the Levant station) and the
Mouette paddle-sloop arrived a few days ago. Austrian
—The Dandolo screw corvette ; and the Frederick screw
corvette (bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Tegit-
hot!), arrived on the 15th inst., and the "Wall screw-
gunboat. Italian—The Tancredi paddle-wheel steamer,
Turkish—The Braussa screw corvette. Greek—TheAthens
paddle-wheel steamer, and one screw gunboat. The
Prussian paddle -steamer Preussische Alder arrived on
the 7th inst. from Malta, en route to Constantinople,
where she is to be stationed to attend on the Prussian
Minister at the Porte. The screw gunboat Blitz arrived in
company, and in tow of the Alder for about three miles, as
when just off the Piraeus the cover of her cylinder sprung.
It will take some time to effect the necessary repairs. On
the morning of the Bth the Prussian gunboat Basilisk ar-
rived from Malta. The Blitz and Basilisk are to be stationed
at the Piraaus. The Preussische Adler sailed on the 14th
for Constantinople. On leaving she got on shore jest outside
the Pillars, but shortly afterwards was floated again with•
out assistance, and proceeded on her voyage. She is to touch
at Syra on her way."

NEW NOVEL by the Author of "ANNE DYSART."
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215.,
THE BIWWNS AND THE SMITHS.
By the Author of "Anne Dysart," &e.
Also now ready, in 3 vols.,
QUEEN MAB. By JULIA KAVANAGH.
Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

NEW WORE: BY THE AUTHOR OF " EAST LYNNE."
On Wednesday, Nov. 11, in 3 vols., post Svo.,
THE SHADOW OF ASHLYDYAT.
By Mrs. WOOD,
Author of "East Lynne," "The Channings," &c.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

On Monday next, in crown Bvo., with Two Illustrations,
price Cs.,
THE LAST OF THE CAVALIERS.
A New and Cheaper Edition, uniform with "East
Lynne."

Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

This day, Never Before Published, price 25.,
BEL DEMONIO. A LOVE STORY.
By PAUL FEVAL,

Author of "The Duke's Motto."
London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street.

BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER.

MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY."

Just published,
ABOOK OF BEAUTY•
By Madame RACHEL.
To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d.

T H E
0 X F OR D,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry It. Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLARA, the
MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONN A MBULA.
Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &a., with full band and chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &C.
Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French
Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
Also, a Pei formance by Herr SUIIAL KENBACII on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO URCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full baud of 40 instruments.
The HALL has just been newiy Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.

Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ;
private boxes, 10s. ed.

CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
V to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing- crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and Henryllircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, " Mt: GHOST," to the Concert Hall, where a
new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample
view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the
Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give
(with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects),
REPRESNNTATIONS EACH EVENI.NG, at half-past
Nine o'clock.

AU the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Ucsworth
(the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E.
Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
Marvels of PE RU, the most wonderful Performers in
the World —LANGLOIS, the marrellows Indian Juggler.
—Grand Comic Divertissement, by the Francesco Family
and Mons. Ratel, assisted by 12 Young Ladies.- The beauti-
ful FAIRY FOUNTAIN—NICOSIA, the eminent Italian
Violinist.

Special Notice.—lmmense Attraction.—The celebrated
French Clowns, ARTnuit and BER (RAND, will make
their appearance in a new Entertainment, reserved expressly
for their engagement at this establishment.

Doors onen at 7—commence at half-past 7.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great
Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR
.o,ICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every
Evening,

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.-THE
PRINCE'S BIRTHDAY.-A Grand FANCY BALL
will take place on MONDAY next. Tickets at the principal
Libraries and Costumiers, and at the Alhambra.
The Hall will be perfumed by E. Rimel, of 288, Strand.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at Tier
Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY
EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, Is.
Manager—M. GRENET.

29, GEORGE-STREE HANOVER-SQUARE.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily f'rom 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7
o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and
Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the
Siamese Twins ; and upwards of 3,030 Models, Natural Pre-
parations, se. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years
old. Admission, One shilling tor Gentlemen only),.

DEAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER
INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in-
vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into
the ear, not perceptib,e, removes singing noises in the head,
and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at
public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly.

IIEATHER'S TRUST.—Under the manage-
ment of the CLOTH WORKERS' COMPANY.—At
a COURT. to be holden on the 2d DECEMBER next, this
COMPANY will distribute to SIX POOR WIDOWS of
DECAYED 110USEKEEPERS the amount divisible under
the above Trust, being about XS to each. Printed forms of
application may be obtained at the Company's Offices, Cloth-
workers' Hall, Mincing-line, London. The applicant must
insert therein particulars relative to her condition and cir-
cumstances, and name references from whom information
may be obtained for verifying the same. The application,
with certificate of her marriage, and a certificate or other
proper proof of the death of her husband, must be left at
the Company's Hall previously to the 23d November instant,
addressed to

ROBERT BECKWITH TOWSE, Clerk.
Clothworkers' Rail, November, 1863.

Statue of Napoleon I. in the Place Vendome.

PROTEST OF THE " SIECLE."

Oar voice has not been heard, as a body of
workmen have let down the popular statue—the
effigy of the conqueror of Austerlitz ; and hence-
forth the Imperial Roman mantle will replace the
grey overcoat and the little cocked hat. The persons
who witnessed this scene were painfully affected,
and the noise which the displaced statue made in
touching the ground had a melancholy sound in
their ears. The column was destined to consecrate
the memory of the glorious and rapid campaign,
which commenced on the 24th Sept., 1805, and ter-
minated on the 26th Dec., 1806, by the treaty of
peace at Presburg. The bronze plates which cover
the stone column are made with Austrian cannon.
The bas-reliefs, modelled by Bergeret, represent the
passage of the Rhine, the combats of Donawerth,
Wertingen, Gunzberg, Albeck, Langenau, and Nee-
resheim ; the capitulation of Ulm ; the victory of
Diernstein ; the entry of the French into Vienna on
the 13th November, and the battle of Austerlitz. If
the architects, Benin, Gondouin, and Lepere, had
not limited the column to a height of 42 metres, the
length of the spiral freize might have been doubled.
Was it not natural to crown those great military
deeds with the effigy of the captain who commanded
the grand army ? Louis Philippe's Government
understood that such ought to be the case. It not
only gave to the statuary, M. Sourre, the indica-
tions and particulars necessary for representing the
captain with the historic costume, but also borrowed
the bronze from three victories, and the statue which
it inaugurated was made with the metal of cannons
taken in Algeria. If the bas reliefs represented the
signing of the concordat, the peace of Amiens, the
promulgation of the code, the coronation and mar-
riage of Napoleon 1., the sessions of the Council of
State, and other incidents of a civil order, one might
understand that the figure by which they are sur-
mounted would bear the costume which the chief of
the state had adopted. It would not in any case be
this Olympian travesty, which is no longer suited to
the present age.

THE GALES.—PORTSMOUrH, Monday..—lntelli-
lo on the beach
w the Royal Sandroek
gence has reached here that the hull of a brit or
schooner, supposed to have gone down with all hands off
St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, during the gale on Pride.),
loaffs ts,
taosn bße eant
hws
,a hs
leed
ofaslhvoirseh,tk,ebeel upwards,
Hotel, at the west end of Undercliff. At the time the letter
containing the intelligence was despatched from Niton the
unfortunate vessel lay half buried in the sand ; and this
cause, combined with the constant sea breaking over her,
rendered it impossible to ascertain, from any writing which
might be on her stern, what was her name, or the port she
hailed from. The wind has been very strong here all day,
from W. and W.S.W., and weather cloudy. The barometer
since 10 a.m. has stood at 30.28.
Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and
4s. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in packets.

The Admiralty have directed that a report shall be made
by the officials of Portsmouth Dockyard and the officer corn-
mending the Admiralty yacht Enchantress of the results
which have attended the trial of Spence's patent non-con-
ductive and non-combustible composition, which has been
applied to coat the boilers, cylinders, and steam pipes in the
hydraulic engine house at the south corner of the dockyard,
and the steam pipes and valve boxes of the Enchantress's
superheating apparatus, with the iron casing which encloses
the latter above the deck. Without pretending to any
knowledge of what will be the tenor of these official reports,
we may simply state what has been accomplished. The
great heat produced in all confined spaces where steam ma-
chinery is at work, whether on shore or on board ship, is
well known. The metal surfaces, such as the boilers and
steam pipes, are generally covered with substances as nearly
non conducting as possible, in order to lessen the radiation
of heat and prevent contact with the more exaosed parts of
the metal surfaces. Felt, lead, and wood sheathing have
been the substances employed for this purpose. It is evi-
dent, however, that these substances, however applied, could
only partially remedy the evil, while their use must always
be attended with considerable danger. This latter point
has been frequently illustrated on board ships of war, and
indeed most strikingly by the recent return of the Pdlorus
to Devonport, after sailing thence for foreign service. One
of her boilers by some means became empty, and therefore
soon redhot, and as a certain result set fire to the felt, and
sheeting, and to the ship. To prevent a recurrence of this
accident, as v'ell as to cover a highly-heated iron surface
on the upper deck, the Enchantress's superheating appa-
ratus and funnel casing were coated with the new composi-
tion early in July last, and nothing can be more satisfactory
than the non-conducting qualities which it has been found
to possess when the yacht was under steam, or its present
condition and appearance. The cylinders, boilers, and steam
pipes in the hydraulic engine-house have been coated with
the composition now 16 months, and Steam there has a daily
(except on Sundays) pressure of 601 b, The bare hand may
be placed on the boilers or steam-pipes, as, indeed, it may
on the Enchantress's superheating apparatus, without the
slightest inconvenience. The heat reached in these super-
heaters ranges from 250 deg. to 400 deg. The material
ordinary labourer. When dry
used can be applied by any
it is coated with a covering of paint. This is what has been
already accomplish() I. What is being now attempted is
confined to the internal skin of iron ships, and is here chiefly
used as a preservative, but in a secondary view, again as a
non-conductor. On the docking of her Majesty's iron screw
troopship 11Iegaara, some three or four years since at Ports-
mouth, after being paid off on her return home from
lengthened foreign service, it was discovered that nearly the
whole of the internal rivet-heads of her bottom plates below
the water-line were eaten off level with the interior surface
of the plates, and many of the rivets had therefore dropped
out of their holes and were gone altogether. The ship's
plates were, in fact, chiefly held in their position on the
framing by the external pressure of the water, and thus any
utOue strain on any one part either by striking on a rack or
straining in a gale of wind, would in all probability have
opened up the ship's bottom and caused her, with all on board,
almost instaneously to sink. An iquiry took place, and the
conclusion arrived at was that the never-ceasing motion of
the water, with the girt from the bilges, et estooyed the rivet-
heads and dasnaged the edges of the plates, and that some
protecting covering was needed, This led to the introduc-
tion of Portland cement and other materials. The rivet-
heads and edges of the plates were thus protected, so long
as the cement did not crack and admit the water, and a

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exertion to have their State qtli 'uZlll:t ' y'"f
quota for New York is 33,000,
The coming election in New York is I.N. g vigor-
ously canvassed by both parties. The Democrats
are very sanguine of success.
An official despatch from General Burnside, dated
Knoxville, Oct. 17th, states that a cavalry brigade
from his command encountered the rebuts at Blue
Spring, and after a sharp fight drove them flre m
(Per the City of Baltimore.) a strong position. General Shakleford, with h.'s
NEW YORK, Om% -„"4.
cavalry and a brigade of infantry, continued in pur-
General Meade had an interview yesterd.3y with suit, the Confederates making a stand at every im-
President Lincoln, and returned afterwards to hi,3 portant position, but he finally drove them com-
post. The reports of his being removed from corn- 11letelr out of Tennessee, captured the fort at Zolli-
mend are, therefore, untrue.
00fror, burned the long railroad bridge at that place,
Information, believed to be perfectly reliable, has also Eve. other bridges, three locomotives, and 35
been received at Washington that Lee is sending care. IL; advance was ten miles beyond Bristol.
to Bragg two more divisions of his army, and that The Federal loss in the-fight at Blue Springs was
it is his intention to retire with the remainder of about one lun'idred killed and wounded. The
his army to the defences at Fredericksburg, where enemy's loss was 4 .nauch greater. One hundred and.
they will, as the rebel authorities beHeve, prevent fifty prisoners werett:ken.

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any demonstration against Richmond by that route,
or up the bank of the James River. They calculate
that the injury done to the Orange and Alexandria
Railroad will prevent any attempt this season to
advance against Richmond by the Gordonsville
route, and they regard any movement up the
Gregg'sN
peninsula as impracticable at this late season.
Generalreconnaissance within
yesterdayof (23d)the it
maapdpeaa
.
hannock, and returned without finding the enemy.
The Orange and Alexandria Railroad has been
repaired one mile beyond Bristow Station. Forces
are engaged night and day repairing the damages
done by the enemy.
The discipline and morale of the army are said to
be fine, and both officers and men have great confi-
dence in General Meade.
There are no indications whatever of a general
engagement. It is estimated that the Federal
losses during the late desultory campaign in killed,
wounded, and prisoners, will not exceed 1,500 men.
The Richmond Examiner of the 20th, says :
" Meade is believed to
.be resting at Centreville
after the fatigue of his prodigious skedaddle. His
retreat is considered to have been so masterly as to
have dimmed for ever the laurels won by M'Clellan
in that branch of warfare. He fell back with more
celerity than Pope, and with more success than
either he or M'Clellan. While we admire the
success of his escape, we shall always wonder why
ho exposed himself in a manner to make his flight
necessary. If it was his design to flee as soon as
menaced, why did he ever come to the Rapidan.
One would suppose that from the Rappahannock to
Washington was a sufficiently long race track.
What his next movement will be, it is impossible
to conjecture. Perhaps, as he was so successful
in running away, he may advance again.
" If he does advance again to the Rapidan, he
can hardly do so in less than a month, as it will
take him at least that time to reconstruct the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which, by the
exertions of both armies, has been pretty thoroughly
demolished from Culpepper Court House to Ma-

nassas J unction."
The following telegrams aro from the Richmond

CULPEPPER COURT-HOUSE, OCT. 17.

The heavy rain yesterday caused the Rapidan
to rise, and the bridge careened last night, ren-
dering it impassable for the present. The battle
at Catlett's Station proved to be a cavalry skir-
mish, in which we took some prisoners. There
was hard fighting late on Wednesday evening at.
Bristow Station. We were driving the enemy
back, when skirmishers fell upon 11PIntosh's bat-
tery, supported by Cook's brigade. Gen. Cook
was wounded early in the action. His brigade
was thrown into confusion, during which the
enemy succeeded in taking five pieces of artil-
lery. Reinforcements coming up we pursued the
enemy towards Dumfries. Our loss is about 500
killed and wounded. Fifteen hundred prisoners
have been gathered during the day.
GORDONSVILLE, OCT. 18.

Parson BrownlP.v aid Horace Maynard made
speeches at Knoxville, October 13th, endorsing the
administration, and favouring immediate emancipa-
tion in East Tennessee.
Unionists in large numbers were said to be join-
ing the army of General Burnside.
The following is from the Richmond Enquirer of
October 16th :
Save on our own terms we can accept no peace
whatever, and must fight till doomsday rather
than yield an iota of them,,,and our terms are:—
Recognition by the enemy of the independence
of the Confederate States.
Withdrawal of the Yankee force from every foot
of Confederate ground, including Kentucky and
Missouri.
'Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from
Maryland
until that State shall decide by a free vote whether
she shall remain in the old Union or ask admission
into the Confederacy,
Consent on the part of the Federal Government
to give up to the Confederacy its proportion of the
navy, as it stood at the time of secession, or to pay
for the same.
Yielding up of all pretension on the part of the
Federal Government to that portion of the old
territories which lies west of the Confederate States.
Anequitableset
and tlement on the basis of our abso-
lute independence,
equal rights of all accounts
of the public debts and public lands, and the ads
vanteges accruing from foreign treaties.
These provisions, we apprehend, comprise the
minimum of what we must require before we lay
down cur arms. That is to say, the North must
yield all—we nothing—and as they have waged a
wicked and causeless war upon us, they ought in
strict justice to be required, according to usage in
such cases, to reimburse to us the whole of our ex-
penses and losses in the cause of that war. Assuredly
as we completely ruin their armies, so surely will
we make them pay our war debt, though we wring
it out of their hearts. And they know it well ;
therefore they cannot make peace except through
their utter inability to strike another blow. The

The enemy have been driven back to their
fortifications at Centreville, to which they have
been flying for several days past pursued by our
forces. They have destroyed in their flight such
stores as they could not take with them. The fight-
ing has been with small bodies as our forces would
came up with them. The battle at Bristow station
was an engagement between parts of the two
armies. It is reported that but for a deserter going
over to the enemy and giving information, the day
our forces commenced moving, we should have
achieved a much more substantial success.

stake they have to forfeit if they lose the game is
as vital as ours. So is the stake to be won. It is
no less than the entire possession of our whole
country, with us in it and all we own, to have and to
hold to them and their heirs for ever,
Once more, we say, it is all or nothing. The
Confederacy or the Yankee nation—one or the other
must go down, forfeit its national existence, and
lie at the feet of its mortal enemy.
Meade's army and Roscncranz's once scattered,
ry,:e c:m get no more armies. The draft turns out
manifestly fruitless. Both the German and the
Irish element are for peace. The Yankees have to
bear the brunt of the war themselves; but in the
meantime their inevitable bankruptcy is advancing
like an armed man. "Hungry ruin has them in
the wind," and it cannot be long before the Cabinet
at Washington will have to consider seriously
terms of peace, under auspices and circumstances
very different from the present. For the present,
let the war roll and thunder on, and God defend the
right.

GORDONSVILLE, OCT. 20.

One thousand Yankee prisoners, captured last
week, are expected here to-night. The Rapidan
bridge will be repaired by to-morrow morning.
(From the Richmond Sentinel, Oct. 21.)
The force reported to bs moving on Abingdon
is believed to bs the same cavalry and mounted in-
fantry, commanded by Foster, who was so easily
whipped in September at Zollicaffa by two regi-
ments of Cerse's brigade. They numbered then
2,000, and can hardly have increased more than a
few hundred. If these are all we have to contend
with, as we believe they are, our salt works are
safe for the present. We wish we could say as
much for East Tennessee. That valuable section
will never be free from Yankee inroads until me
retake Cumberland Gap.
papers contains the following :
Richmond
INIISSIONAR,Y RIDGE, OCT. 17.
Gen. D. a Hill has been relieved, and Gen.
Breckenridge placed in command of his corps;
The recent heavy rains have caused a freshet in
the Tennessee river. The bridges over Chicka-
mauga and Chattanooga Creeks have been
see the
swept
away. For the first time in four daps
The bridges are being rapidly repaired. The
we
sun.
enemy's pontoon bridge along the town was sub-
merged. Sigel's corps is reported to
have been at
Stevenson on the 14th.

has been a cry for
Re-
viewer.--For many years there
ENGLISH OPERA.—Defined by a Saturday Re-
pet manent estab-
lishment of a theatre in w
etrhsehave come forward
awni
taht ieopnlaelu
do pi
de reae.h e
in ee ,
hiachenative singers should sing
Successiveen
paper,
pmranfaeg_
composers in our native tongue. Yet
the works of native
it, and crumbles into very
which its propounders place .
each scheme in turn tumbles from the lofty pedestal on
quite ready
the public, who are
owrdinary materials. A distaste for Er glish opera cannot
be charged upon
ciate and reward good opera of any kind, and who flock to
the theatre when any piece but slightly above the usua I
feeble run of
,English opera is produced. There is, more-
over, a strong wish among the lovers of music for the de-
velopment in this country of a school of dramatic compo-
sition; with all this demand, with all the increased at-
tention yet,wieh music has lately received, and with all the
improvement in the national musical taste, the hopes of a
national opera are as small as ever. The cause must surely
be found in our composers and our managers. The former
allow their pens to be guided, not by their musical and
dramatic feelings, but by the wishes of their publishers,
and, in place of composing for the stage, write what will
suit the milder atmosphere of the drawing-room, This is
the crying vice of our English operatic writers. If they
have by them a pretty ballad or a sparkling song, they
care nothing for dramatic situations, but bring it in
head and shoulders, that they may get good terms from
Bond-street, which thus obtains the best possible
advertisement of the morceau by its being sung by the
pet singer in the new opera, with which it has perhaps
no more in common than Achilles with the distaff. The
best opera writers aro guided by different principles.
Take " Fidelio " or " Der Freyschutz"—there are but one
or two pieces in each of these operas bearable off that
stage, and one can count upon one's ten fingers all that
Meyerbeer's operas yield for drawing-room consumption,:
The same is true of Auber in a less degree; and although
Mozart's music and that of the great Italian composers eau
be listened to with pleasure apart from the story, . '
is
for
ing as it does so much pure melody, yet the effectu
greater when the passages are heard in the
because these
which they were composed. This happenssas
well a 5 great
composers, being really operatic composer,:
erecters of their
musicians, clothe the situations and the c
and paints tho
dramas with music which tells tho
.sstotery
write
an opera;
passions they wish to express.
This
sted songs, unconnected
contain"
but to string together a series of
resultisolated
be intrinsically valu-
e savage, in which each stone Id
barbaric, exciting no
able, but the whole is tawdryys
Yet this is the course of the
by any unity of purpose, gives a
aay like the necklace of
Pleasure in its contemplation.fs
inyB
out his book so as to
average English composer. f I
to show to advantage the exe-
rtttiewnent of Miss B, or the volume
ballads for his publisher ; and
as they
cution of Mrs. A, thmersec,
etyh the
re greatest
generallyn umwbreni
gentlemen who attend the
the young laditeswhat
and upper notes of
and
they fancy
young
gey ensure a large demand from
will suit their respective
opera to find ou
immediately reproduce such pieces for the benefit
voices, and
move as musical
(or infliction)long as this system lasts, so long is a National
lights. So .
and our composers
ofthe circles. in which they
Opera impossible..
than go on choosing a story
themselves .
it into half-a-dozen of their best ballads taken
and putting
Ives with single songs
up with a noisy chorus
( 3,a
rt
two,ra nd om frombestowing their
someei r desks, e sk s till
pains ,
vienrghap
s upon a solitary con-
dceiftritceudlt piece,reu fitting the prima donna with a sufficiently
finale, and imagining
they have written an
opera.

Confederate accounts from Charleston,, up to the
21st October, state that a bris., fire is maintained
upon the Federals with no response. The Ironsides
is asserted to be leaky since the torpedo attack. She
steamed around Cumming's Point on the 21st. Ore
more Monitor had joined the fleet. The French
ship Tasiphon had arrived ; her commander, Do
Marivaux, is said to be a cousin of the Emperor.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 21st states that
Gen, price
with a force of 20,000 men is marching
upon Little Rock, with only six thousand in front
of him. He is said to be on his way to Missouri. A
serious disagreement had taken place between Gens.
Price and Holmes, causing considerable demoralisa-
tion among their troops. It was, however, finally
settled to their mutual satisfaction.
A despatch from Memphis, dated Oct. 21, sta.tes
that Bragg is reported to have crossed the Alabama
^, n d Tennessee Railroad, and transported his sup-
plies to Rome and Sclma
President Lincoln's reply to the Missouri-Kansas
delegation has given great dissatisfaction to the
Radicals. He refuses to remove Gen, Schofield.
The Russians" have gone on a visit to Niagara
falls. Municipal invitations have been given theta
to visit Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington.
The arrangements for the grand b;111 to them in
Now York are not yet completed.
New Jersey
The Governors of Now York and

A REMAENABLE INSTANCE OF POCKET-PICKING
is said to have recently happened in London. A
gentleman from the country received a large sum of money'
in sovereigns. He -Ae bought a sort of canvas bag for it,
walked along the streets, all the while keeping his hand in
the pocket where the purse was, with a desperate determi-
nation not to be done. All at once, to his astonishment,
his purse was gone. lie at once went to a policeman, by
whose assistance he had the singular good fortune to find
the thief who had taken his purse. The gentleman was so
amazed at his puree being taken while his hand had nevera
left his pocket, that ho offered to forgive the thief, if he
would tell him how it was done. The thief then said
" I happened to see you receiving the money, and lowed
you. I saw you buy the bag-purse, and
a again fofor
un-
consciously After a time I tickled your ear with
feather
-consciously you took your hand out of your purse-pocket to
y,
remove what you thought, perhaps, was a ll
you were rubbing your car, I got rho• s
booty., ,7d o)7che
W eek.ile

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS am—Morning, 9h. 59m.—Afternoon,`_10h. 33m.
To-Hoßnow.-Morning, 11h. 3m.—Afternoon, 11h. 32m.